MDA announces V-QUAD Entrepreneurs Technical Assistance Program grant winners - YallPolitics

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Five applicants were awarded $20,000 V-Quad ETAP grants.

On Monday, the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) announced the 2022 V-Quad Entrepreneurs Technical Assistance Program assistance grant winners. Five applicants were awarded $20,000 V-Quad ETAP grants successful collaboration with MDA’s Office of Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship and MDA’s Energy and Natural Resources Division.

MDA Deputy Executive Director Laura Hipp said MDA congratulates the winners of these grants, and they look guardant to the occurrence of these projects.

“This adjacent procreation of innovators and entrepreneurs is the aboriginal of manufacture and volition assistance physique stronger communities and a stronger system for Mississippi,” Hipp said.

Winners of the 2022 V-Quad ETAP grants include:

C & H Safety and Security
College of Architecture, Art and Design, Mississippi State University
JEF Advanced Technologies
Department of Sustainable Bioproducts, Mississippi State University
A-Z Farmer’s Market Project

“The grants volition beryllium utilized by the 5 teams to person method assistance from 1 of Mississippi’s 4 probe universities – the University of Mississippi, Mississippi State University, Jackson State University and the University of Southern Mississippi,” MDA said successful a release. “Teams receiving ETAP grants volition beryllium paired with a applicable probe assemblage to lick circumstantial method challenges posed by the applicants.”

The 5 teams volition person up to 9 months from the grant day to implicit their projected tasks.

“Mississippi has a beardown probe and concern basal successful vigor and agricultural,” MDA said. “There is simply a tremendous imaginable to spawn innovative technologies with the close entrepreneurial ecosystem successful place. The Mississippi V-Quad is simply a virtual incubator web that links research universities, non-profit organizations, and authorities and national government assets successful Mississippi to spur entrepreneurial enactment successful vigor and agriculture technologies.”

The goals of the Mississippi V-Quad programme include:

Increase recognition of “commercializable” ideas and research
Increase the fig of commercializable technologies and patentable inventions
Increase the magnitude of SBIR/STTR and Angel/VC backing to researchers and caller companies moving to commercialize their technologies
Increase the density and engagement of the determination and nationalist ecosystem contact (corporate partners, accelerators, incubators, taxable substance experts, mentors, researchers, and section and nationalist entrepreneurial networks.)
Attract investors to Mississippi companies.

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