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Early and mid-stage companies will have no trouble finding a strong support system for growth in the Kansas City market. The KC region has made advancing the biosciences industry a major priority, resulting in the development of a wide variety of resources over the past decade..

Enterprise Center for Johnson County is a business incubator in Johnson County, Kansas that provides business consulting, advisory services, financing resources and office space to accelerate the success of high-growth companies.

Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program (HEMP) was founded in 1995 by Barnett Helzberg, Jr., former owner and President of Helzberg diamonds. HEMP matches seasoned, successful entrepreneur mentors with less-experienced entrepreneur mentees. Components of the program include a one-on-one mentoring relationship, networking opportunities with peers and veteran business owners, exposure to mentoring skills that can be applied to any professional or personal situation, business educations discussing greatest successes and lessons learned from peers and top CEOs in the community, and field trips to locations of entrepreneurial interest within the Kansas City area.

Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Henry W Bloch School of Business at the University of Missouri—Kansas City — The Institute's mission is to inspire and nurture future generations of entrepreneurs and deliver transformational entrepreneurship education and experiences university-wide. Housed at the University of Missouri - Kansas City's (UMKC) Bloch School for Business; the vision of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is to be a world's leading research and education institute for entrepreneurship and innovation. As a unique differentiator, the Institute distinguishes itself across five key elements: research, faculty, education, programs, and results.

Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute is an organization responsible for coordinating and overseeing the region's life sciences initiative. The Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute works to advance the region's life sciences research, commercialization, and workforce development.

Kansas Bioscience Organization (Kansas BIO) is a statewide education and advocacy organization focused on serving as the voice of the bioscience industry in Kansas.

Kansas Bioscience Authority was created by the Kansas Legislature in 2004 to oversee a $581 million fund that will be generated over 12 years for the purpose of growing the bioscience economy in Kansas.

The KBA is focused on expanding Kansas' research and industry strengths to:

• Increase the quantity of high-quality research that has commercial relevance for Kansas
• Expand the availability of investment capital needed to form and grow new companies
• Grow and nurture an increasingly experienced pool of entrepreneurial management talent supported by organized systems of services and networking
• Expand the availability of capital and assistance to support product innovation in established companies
• Facilitate bioscience corporate expansion and attract new-to-Kansas bioscience corporate activity that grows and strengthens specific clusters of excellence

Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC) is a private/public partnership established by the state of Kansas to promote technology-based economic development. Through support of strategic research and development at the Centers of Excellence, intense hands-on business assistance at its incubators and its direct equity investments in early-stage companies, KTEC serves as an invaluable partner to companies that bring economic growth to Kansas.

Kansas University Office of Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property encourages the commercial development of intellectual property to enhance research capability of the University of Kansas to serve the public.

Kauffman Foundation of Entrepreneurship — The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a $2 billion foundation in Kansas City dedicated to education and entrepreneurship worldwide.

The internationally-acclaimed entrepreneurship learning program, FastTrac, is based at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. More than 300,000 entrepreneurs around the world have received this valuable training to start, grow and lead businesses.

KC Source Link, also funded by the Kauffman Foundation, connects a network of more than 140 non-profit resource organizations in the Kansas City region that offer business building services.

Missouri Biotechnology Association focuses on maintaining the growth of the bioscience industry generated by research and development in Missouri.

Missouri Technology Corporation was established by the Missouri Legislature in 1994 to focus on transferring new innovations into the marketplace to create new companies. MTC oversees various state funding mechanisms for fostering innovation that have led to many bioscience-related companies expanding or relocating to Missouri.