Membership

ABI-LAB – Natick, MA

ABI-LAB is an affordable Boston Area Accelerator and Bio-Incubator whose mission is to support startup companies, and to accelerate their drug discovery programs. Our current facility is a 17,000 ft. building. We are breaking ground on a 65,000 sq. foot building across from the current facility which will have 40 additional labs.

Our State of the Art Facility is a modern updated building with kitchens, conferences rooms and IT infrastructure. Our labs are all built out to allow a company to move in today and begin their experiments tomorrow. We have a Quarterly lecture series to support our startup companies, entrepreneurs and scientists. Mentoring and business networking is available. Dr. Raphael Nir; scientist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of 6 biotechnology companies is onsite daily to assist. Dr. Nir has worked with over 180 companies during his 20 years as President and Chief Scientific Officer of SBH Sciences. We have on-site contract lab services including, but not limited to: protein production, cell-culture, cell-based assays, biomarker analysis and animal studies (Oncology and NASH models). www.abi-lab.com

Mansfield Bio-Incubator — Mansfield, MA

Mansfield Bio-Incubator is a non-profit biotech, pharma, life science, and medical device business incubator facility. We were created to nurture entrepreneurial and economic development in the community. We aim to do this by maintaining affordable lab and office space and making cutting-edge technology, services, training, mentoring, and a network of professional advisors available to small biotechnology companies and health-related start-ups. Accepting applications now. For more information visit www.bioinc.org.

Alpha Loft, Portsmouth, Manchester and Durham NH

Alpha Loft is dedicated to accelerating the development of early-stage, scalable businesses, commercializing the intellectual capital developed at UNH and other leading educational institutions, and creating sustainable employment opportunities in the State of New Hampshire.

Alpha Loft supports and provides resources to entrepreneurs, improving their prospects for successfully launching and scaling innovation-based businesses. Alpha Loft’s success means a strong entrepreneurial culture in NH, creating companies and high quality jobs. In addition to high value programming, events, advice, and mentoring, Alpha Loft has locations in Durham, Portsmouth, and Manchester where entrepreneurs can start and build their companies. www.alphaloft.org

Umass Dartmouth Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship – Fall River, MA

The UMass Dartmouth Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) is an incubator for technology-driven companies to build their exciting ideas. Located in the South Coast Research and Technology Park, near the intersection of Routes 195 and 24 in Fall River, the center is housed in a 60,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility. The goal of the CIE is to provide advanced technology and manufacturing solutions, through industry and university partnerships, to meet current and future business needs. www.umassd.edu/innovate

Business Growth Center, Springfield, MA

Business Growth Center provides comprehensive support services and a professional office environment for new businesses initiatives, enhancing and accelerating their growth and stimulating economic development in Western Massachusetts. www.businessgrowthcenter.org

Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology – E. Hartford, CT

The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc. helps private and public entities to apply innovative tools and practices to increase efficiencies, improve workforce development and boost competitiveness. CCAT functions as a unique economic development organization that combines expertise in cutting-edge technology with specialized centers of excellence in manufacturing, education, training, energy and entrepreneurialism. Throughout these efforts, we promote partnership between industry, academia and government to create a new collaborative framework for addressing 21st-century economic challenges. www.ccat.us

UMass Lowell Innovation Hub – Lowell MA

The UMass Lowell Innovation Hub provides startup programming and access to the UMass Lowell's faculty and research resources, as well as collaboration with mentors and sponsors.This space addresses the needs of "open innovation" startups by offering them needed work and laboratory space and access to office resources in the short term, rather than long-term, expensive business leases. Located in downtown Lowell's vibrant Hamilton Canal District, UMass Lowell's Innovation Hub provides access to dedicated office and desks, coworking spaces, meeting and event locations, a prototyping and fabrication lab, support services and much more.  www.uml.edu/Innovation-Hub/

Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives – Worcester MA

MBI is a private, independent economic development organization that serves as a catalyst for life science and healthcare innovation. We help start biomedical companies and create jobs within the Biotechnology, Medical Device, Informatics, and Biomanufacturing industry by providing secure, clean bench and sink surface, staff trained and fully licensed laboratory space for usage by “seed stage” companies. Building and maintaining collaborative affiliations and partnerships are essential to our success.

Through its Incubator facilities located in Worcester, MBI lowers the barriers to success for emerging companies by providing cost effective, high quality laboratory and support services.  www.massbiomed.org

Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority / TechPlace – Brunswick, ME

The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority (MRRA) is a public municipal corporation by State law established by the Maine State Legislature to implement the NASB Reuse Master Plans for both NASB and Topsham's Annex as they have been set forth by both the Brunswick Local Redevelopment Authority (BLRA) and the Topsham Local Redevelopment Authority (TLRA). The Reuse Master Plans for NASB and the Topsham Annex represent a unique opportunity to establish a vibrant live, work, learn, and play environment, Centers of excellence for technology innovation, environmental sustainability, and "green" community development, a variety of corporate, business, academic, recreational, and community services, and a strong sense of place based on smart growth principles. www.mrra.us

TechPlace supports the small business development needs of early-stage companies in a collaborative environment in the heart of Maine’s midcoast region. TechPlace gives entrepreneurs a place to network with other innovators, research and develop ideas, build prototypes, test products, assemble, grow, learn, and become successful manufacturing and technology companies. techplacemaine.us.

Northeastern University – Boston, MA

Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university built on a tradition of engagement with the world, creating a distinctive experiential approach to learning and discovery. The university offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools, and select advanced degrees at campuses in Charlotte, N.C., Seattle, Silicon Valley, and Toronto. Major research campuses in Burlington, MA, and Nahant, MA, pursue advancements in homeland security and coastal sustainability.

Northeastern University provides access to its Experiential Network (XN) Program and the Level Data Analytics Program to ACTION Innovation Network’s incubator members and resident startup companies, in addition to the university’s other talent acquisition & workforce development programs.

North Shore InnoVentures – Beverly, MA

Cleantech InnoVenture Center (CIVC) is business incubator to nurture innovative early-stage cleantech companies and support sustained economic growth in our region. NSIV is a non-profit, supported in part by state and federal grants as well as corporate sponsors, which helps subsidize the facilities and services we offer. Collaboration is at the heart of our model. We bring shared physical resources, sponsor services, experienced entrepreneurs and investment advisers together with promising young companies. Together we help them conserve capital, make good decisions, build strong teams and achieve development and funding milestones. www.nsiv.org/

Polo Meccatronica – Rovereto TN, Italy

The Mechatronics Cluster brings together representatives of the worlds of production, education and research in areas related to mechatronics: a new form of engineering combining information technology, electronics, mechanics, hydraulics and pneumatics.

The coexistence of different companies, secondary schools, university departments, research centres and industrial accelerators supported by the valuable services of Trentino Sviluppo creates the ideal conditions for experimentation and production of innovative processes and products.

The Cluster is the most recent expression of Trentino’s natural inclination for mechanics and mechatronics. This is in fact the sector employing the majority of workers in manufacturing industry (almost 10,000), with about 800 active enterprises, making an important contribution to Trentino’s exports.

In this business hub, research centres and educational institutions perform their functions while at the same time responding to local demand for innovation, contributing to the social and economic development of the district of Rovereto and to production throughout Trentino. www.polomeccatronica.it

Progetto Manifattura – Rovereto TN, Italy

Progetto Manifattura - Green Innovation Factory is an initiative of the autonomous Province of Trento to transform a former tobacco plant into a cluster for cleantech innovation. With over 100,000 square feet of floor space situated on roughly 22 acres of land, the space will be used to host private enterprise in three main sectors: green building, renewable energy and environmental technologies, with research labs, training facilities, and public uses designed specifically to promote the cluster concept. Participating companies will benefit from an innovation ecosystem unique in Italy, with assistance programs for starting and growing new businesses. www.progettomanifattura.it

The Quincy Center for Innovation

The Quincy Center for Innovation is a unique co-operative office model consisting of three primary objectives designed to foster business growth and expansion, Collaboration, Programming, and Support. The 12,500 square foot facility is located within the Eastern Nazarene College Business Administration building at 180 Old Colony Avenue, just minutes from the Wollaston Red Line MBTA station. Contact Dean Rizzo, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information. Visit www.quincyinno.com.

SeaAhead — Boston, MA

SeaAhead is a bluetech startup platform and benefit corporation, located at the Cambridge Innovation Center, with the mission of supporting venture innovation for the ocean. Our open innovation platform supports startups seeking a community that is driven to have a positive, sustainable impact on the ocean. SeaAhead helps build companies through its BlueSwell incubator, facilitates investments through the Blue Angels Investment Group, and sparks innovation through competitions like the BlueGreen Innovation Challenge. Our ecosystem includes startups, investors, corporations, governments, and other ocean stakeholders that are coming together to create impact in areas including greener shipping and ports, seafood systems, offshore alternative energy, resilient waterfronts, scalable solutions to marine plastic pollution, and ocean-centric approaches to the challenges of climate change.

Social Enterprise Greenhouse, Providence, RI

SEG provides a comprehensive support system to inspire, start, grow, and sustain successful social enterprises. Our partnership of engaged entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and social investors provide social, intellectual, and financial capital to develop organizations that use market dynamics and business principles to improve our community and society. We are a partnership of leaders from the business, nonprofit, academic and government sectors who are dedicated to sharing our skills, talents and resources to advance the goals of the social enterprise community. SEG leverages the uniquely close-knit and conducive Rhode Island environment to quickly research local needs, then develop, prototype, and perfect innovative programs that inspire, start, grow, and sustain successful social enterprises. www.segreenhouse.org

Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, Burlington, VT

VCET is a leading-edge technology incubator serving all of Vermont under a mandate to increase technology startups and accelerate next generation job creation for this generation of Vermonters. VCET offers a targeted business incubator program designed to foster the success of high opportunity technology firms by providing firms with substantive business mentoring along with traditional incubator services such as low cost, flexible office space, shared resources, capital, networking, training, etc . VCET is an independent 501 c (3) public benefit corporation in affiliation with the University of Vermont and partners with Norwich University, Middlebury College, Champlain College and the five Vermont State Colleges. vermonttechnologies.com

Southbridge Tech Incubator — Southbridge, MA

Southbridge Tech Incubator (STI) is a privately held collaborative workspace with a mission to provide an environment where tenants can create, build, interact, and share ideas and resources. The mission is supported by a network of consultants, mentors and suppliers that contribute a wide variety of skills and experience to tenants’ teams. STI’s newly refurbished building is ideal for the development and pilot production of medical devices and other technology products.

WORC + LAB – Worcester, MA

WCTI is a clean tech oriented business incubator located at 44 Portland Street, in the heart of downtown Worcester. Its mission is to nurture and foster the growth of entrepreneurial enterprises that will address the most pressing issues of our time. WCTI provides access to the physical, network, and capital resources companies need to propel ideas to market – to bring products to market cheaper and faster. In addition to space, we provide in-house advising, mentorship, networking support, and external services (i.e. legal services) to entrepreneurs and startups. worclab.org