The Montana Enterprise Center is proud to have the following organizations as resources and support:
Montana World Trade Center:
For nearly two decades, Montana World Trade Center (MWTC) has served Montana as a trusted business adviser. We work with more than 320 World Trade Centers around the globe, foreign consulates, trade associations, US Commercial Service Offices, and many others in order to provide Montana companies with actionable information, prescriptive export strategies, on-demand project management, and long-term strategic guidance. If you’re interested in initiating or growing your sales outside the U.S. but not exactly sure how to turn perceived opportunity into meaningful pieces of business for your company, MWTC can help.
Montana Bioscience Alliance
The Montana Bioscience Alliance serves as a hub for Montana’s biotechnology companies, entrepreneurs, laboratories, hospitals, clinics and universities to commercialize, grow and sustain globally competitive bioscience companies — ultimately to create high-quality jobs and economic opportunity in Montana.
Blackstone LaunchPad at the University of Montana:
The Blackstone LaunchPad is a national model for fostering entrepreneurship helping students jumpstart their own businesses to promote and encourage economic development in Montana. Blackstone LaunchPad is an innovative program that treats entrepreneurship as a viable career path and provide students with a network of venture coaches and entrepreneurial support to transform new ideas into sustainable companies.
MilTech:
MilTech is a part of the Montana State University College of Enegineering Partnership Intermediary progam. MilTech delivers hands-on product design, prototyping, technology scouting, and manufacturing assistance to accelerate innovative techonoly implementation to the US warfighter. Dealing with mostly military prgram managers, MilTech helps provide the products and techonology for military use. One of the missions for the company is to support small businesses technology providers.
The Energy Technology Program at Missoula College:
The Energy Technology Program introduces students to the full suite of energy systems and technologies. It has students work with both traditional and renewable energy, and helps them to prepare for future careers in a fast growing industry. What students leave with after finishing the program is an ability and understanding for design, installion, maintanance, and operation of energy systems.
Montana Small Business Development Center:
SBDC's mission is to provide tools and guidance to help small businesses succeed. For an individual that is looking to start a new business or expand their existing business, the SBDC network is the best place to start. The SBDC network supports ten centers around the state, focusing on counseling in areas such as financial analysis, business planning, training and workshops and loan packaging assistance to help small businesses achieve their goals of growth, expansion, innovation and success.
Missoula Economic Partnership:
The Missoula Economic Partnership works collaboratively to foster business diversity, sustainability and job development across industries to increase prosperity through development, while enhancing the business environment and quality of life in our community.
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Montana High Tech Alliance
Launched in April 2014, the Montana High Tech Business Alliance is a statewide membership organization focused on creating more high tech jobs in Montana. The Alliance currently has more than 150 member firms.
Full membership in the Alliance is available to for-profit firms engaged in high-tech and manufacturing that have operations in Montana. High tech is defined as firms that make or sell high tech products, provide professional services or consulting related to high tech, conduct e-commerce, or engage in manufacturing using skilled labor.
Montana Department of Commerce:
Montana Department of Commerce Entrepreneur Development Program is a system that is designed to provide information to accessing capital and technical assistance resources for the entrepreneur. The program works with the community’s development organizations and all entrepreneurs throughout Montana.
Montana Procurement Technical Assistance Center:
PTACs' knowledgable advisors offer consulting and training as well as tools, information and resources for businesses interested in government contracting. With services ranging from telephone consultations, personal appointments, special government contracting events, and workshops and seminars, PTAC offers services designed to provide you with the most personal and timely advice possible.
Montana Manufacturing Extension Center:
The Montana Manufacturing Extension Center is a statewide manufacturing outreach & assistance center staff by full-time professionals with extensive experience in manufacturing and business in a variety of industries. MMEC can assess your business operations today and help you grow, innovate, and enhance profits for tomorrow. Their staff are knowledgable, unbiased, and forthright in their observations as they work with you to improve your business.
Blackfoot Telecommunications:
Headquartered in Missoula, Blackfoot delivers state-of-the-art broadband, communications and IT services to businesses across Montana and Idaho for over 60 years. They’ve also invested over $20 million in broadband infrastructure since 2010, including delivering a 1-gigabit Internet connection to MonTEC to grow job opportunities and support MonTEC’s business incubator. Blackfoot looks for ways to invest in the long-term success in their communities.