Corporate sponsors can be very generous contributors to incubator facilities and universities. They sponsor labs, equipment, and other very public areas to gain visibility. It is important at the same time to realize that these companies exist to create profits – their own. They desire to gain access to new technologies and advances in product areas pertinent to their lines of business. Corporations have been known to advance technologies that can benefit them and also to

CI Works has recently had the privilege of a visit from a company from Barcelona, Spain interested in moving to the United States, and particularly Massachusetts. It is a renewable energy breakthrough technology that can generate electricity from otherwise ordinary light sources. They have a patent on their technology already in Spain. They seek to move to the US and form a company to generate revenue and create jobs. They are working through the challenges of US incorpor