RBI Fact Sheet (PDF file)

The Maryland Rural Business Incubation Initiative (RBI) is designed to enhance commercialization activities and provide technical and business assistance to early-stage technology companies in Southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore.

Assistance to companies will be provided through the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO), College of Southern Maryland (CSM) Entrepreneur and Leadership Center, and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) Rural Development Center. Each organization provides resources, consulting services and technical management assistance.

Providing technical and general business assistance is a cornerstone of this program connecting companies to business resources and federal laboratory and university research opportunities.

The RBI Initiative will achieve its goals through:

• Supporting current and planned incubator facilities
• Identifying companies seeking technologies to commercialize and facilitate collaborations with federal laboratories and universities in Maryland
• Providing general business assistance to incubation stage companies at no cost in:
  • Technology commercialization strategy
  • Intellectual property strategy
  • Market channels
  • Financing options
  • Building a management team
  • SBIR and STTR proposal writing assistance
  • Organizational Structure
  • Human Resource issues
• Identifying funding opportunities for early stage companies

This project is funded by a grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).*

For more information on this program please contact:
Ms. Robbie Melton, at 410-715-4164 or rmelton@marylandtedco.org

* SBA’s funding should not be construed as an endorsement of any products, opinions, or services. All SBA-funded projects are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis.