Growing here

MASSACHUSETTS IS A NATIONAL AND GLOBAL HUB OF INNOVATION,
entrepreneurship, and opportunity, offering a highly educated and
skilled workforce, world-class infrastructure transportation. Find the
resources to grow your business here!

RESOURCES FOR BUSINESS GROWTH IN MASSACHUSETTS

MassBio

The MassBio BioReady Communities Campaign aims to help biotechnology
companies looking to grow in Massachusetts find the right place to do
that. Because of Massachusetts’ rich history in biotechnology, many of
its cities and towns, with the support of state government, have
increasingly adopted local policies that greatly ease the pathway for
renovation or new construction of biotech laboratory and manufacturing
facilities. Expedited permitting policies, by-right zoning, supportive
public infrastructure projects, pre-permitted biotech sites, planned
area developments are examples of the increasingly supportive public
policies in Massachusetts municipalities. The BioReady Communities
Campaign works with cities and towns to best position themselves for
biotech opportunities—then helps match companies with the municipalities
welcoming them.

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The Business Resource Team

The BRT, located at the Massachusetts Office of Business Development
(MOBD) is your single point of contact for help to relocate, expand,
grow and maintain your business in Massachusetts. Please contact the
BUSINESS RESOURCE TEAM to learn more.

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MassEcon

Looking to locate or expand your business here? MassEcon is the
Commonwealth's central source of available property information in
Massachusetts. MassEcon's Site Finder Service paired with its Research
and Information Service and Ambassadors program, ensure their ability to
provide decision-support to companies evaluating Massachusetts as a
location for their business.

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MassDevelopment

Need financial assistance here? MassDevelopment can structure a
financing package that suits your needs whether you’re are a
manufacturer, nonprofit entity, small business or real estate developer.
They have the resources and extensive financing experience to support
your growth here.

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Mass Office of International Trade and Investment (MOITI)

MOITI works to expand the Massachusetts economy by marketing the
state’s business internationally, through focused export promotion,
attracting foreign companies to invest in Massachusetts and handling
protocol as it relates to trade and investment.

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State Office of Minority & Women Business Assistance

An agency within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts helping promote the
development of business enterprises and non-profit organizations owned
or operated by minorities and women.

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Office of Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Small businesses represent 85% of all Massachusetts companies and
employ over a quarter of the workforce. Massachusetts Office of Small
Business & Entrepreneurship works with the Commonwealth's many
service providers of technical assistance and financing, as well as
directly with small businesses to provide an atmosphere of success.
Whether your business is early stage or is well established, with the
right information, assistance, and training your company will have the
opportunity to thrive and grow in Massachusetts. Our web-site offers many resources for you to develop a financing or marketing plan, recruit & train employees, and register your business.

Massachusetts Life Science Center

The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center offers resources to help life
sciences companies grow. The Center's Accelerator Program provides
working capital to early-stage companies in the fields of biotechnology,
pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics and bioinformatics.

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The Life Sciences Center also provides resources to help companies
advance innovative life sciences research. The Center's Cooperative
Research Matching Grant Program provides funding to support
collaborative research projects between industry and academia.

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Massachusetts Permit Regulatory Office

The Massachusetts Permit Regulatory Office was established in 2006 to
work with new and existing businesses to help foster job creation
efforts by assisting with permitting, licensing, and regulatory
processes. The Director of the Office serves as the state permitting
ombudsman to municipalities and businesses, and Chair of the Interagency
Permitting Board, which administers the Chapter 43D Expedited
Permitting Program. The Office works in partnership with
MassDevelopment, Regional Planning Agencies, and the Massachusetts
Alliance for Economic Development to accomplish its core mission.

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COMPANIES GROWING HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS

The Chamberlain Group

The Chamberlain Group is a company built on engaged critical thinking,
creating real physical anatomy for real device interaction and training.
The Chamberlain Group produces anatomically accurate medical models
that capture the consistency and response of living tissue. Our models
provide the best alternative to animals and cadavers for demonstrating
and training new devices and procedures. We blend art and technology to
bring innovation to medical education and to support the adoption of new
products and methodologies. Learn more HERE. 

IPG Photonics/Oxford

IPG Photonics manufactures high-performance fiber lasers and amplifiers
for use in a wide range of markets, such as materials processing,
advanced technologies, telecommunications and medical applications.
Founded in 1990, IPG Photonics pioneered the development and
commercialization of optical fiber-based lasers, a new generation of
lasers that combine the advantages of semiconductor diodes with the high
amplification and precise beam qualities of specialty optical fibers.
Because these lasers deliver superior performance, reliability and
usability at a lower total cost of ownership compared with conventional
lasers, fiber lasers are displacing traditional lasers in many current
applications and enabling new applications for lasers. The Company's
vertically integrated manufacturing provides significant competitive
advantages and enhances its ability to meet customer requirements,
manage costs and improve performance. IPG Photonics is based in Oxford,
Massachusetts with additional manufacturing facilities in Germany,
Italy, Russia and regional sales offices in Detroit, Silicon Valley,
China, France, India, Japan, Korea, Singapore and the United Kingdom. Learn more HERE.

Konarka of Lowell/New Bedford

Konarka is a solar energy company founded in 2001 by a team of
scientists at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Growing since
2001, Konarka has emerged with 75 employees across its two locations in
New Bedford and Lowell. Konarka's employee force boasts many of the
world’s top thin film photovoltaic scientists. In 2008, Konarka
introduced Power Plastic to the commercial market. Also in 2008, the
company expanded, opening a 250,000 SF manufacturing facility in New
Bedford. The expansion created 10-15 new jobs. The company is hoping to
add 100 or more employees over the next two or three years. In January
2009, Konarka announced that it would begin shipping its new solar
technology, seven years in the making. The company's impressive
technical innovations have led to investments of over $150 million in
private capital and $20 million in government research grants to date –
as well as exciting collaborations with solar technology scientists
throughout the world. Learn more HERE.

LTI Smart Glass, Pittsfield

For LTI Smart Glass, whose product line includes privacy and bullet
resistant glass, its business vision was as clear as glass. But, like
many companies lately, it wondered how it might accomplish some of its
business goals. That's where MassDevelopment came in. We issued a $5
million tax-exempt industrial development bond, which was purchased by
TD Bank. That allowed the company to purchase and renovate a vacant
manufacturing building in Pittsfield and buy additional equipment to
help expand its glass and polycarbonate manufacturing. The company
estimates that 82 new jobs will be created. Learn more HERE.

Masy Systems, Inc. of Pepperell

Pepperell-based Masy Systems recently invested more than $1 million in a
new bio-storage facility that was financed by MassDevelopment. The
facility provides off-site storage for pharmaceutical and life science
companies of their proprietary biologic compounds -- many of which have
taken years to research, develop, and market. In addition, just last
year the company spent close to $1 million on a new building in the
Lomar Industrial Park. Masy has already added five people to its
35-person business and plans to add another five jobs over the next
year. The company was both the first Certified Project in the Town of
Pepperell and the impetus behind the Town becoming an Economic Target
Area (ETA). As an exporter with clients on three continents, Masy
expects sales to continue to grow this year. Learn more HERE.

GenArts of Cambridge

Founded in 1996 and Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., with offices on
the west coast and in the UK, GenArts is the leading provider of visual
effects software for the motion picture, television and video
industries. Today the company has over 27,000 customers around the world
– from Disney, Lucasfilm, TNT, Sony, CBS, MTV, ABC, BBC, Fox, NBC,
Doctor Phil, Digital Domain, CNN, etc. to small post production houses.
GenArts made two acquisitions in 2009 and announced its first multi-year
strategic studio agreement with Lucasfilm working to expand effects to
their video games unit, LucasArts, with other strategic agreements to
follow. Mass. GenArts continues to grow its presence locally to tap into
the wealth of creative and technical talent here in Massachusetts.
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Tegra Medical of Franklin

Tegra Medical is a supplier of contract manufacturing services to the
medical device industry. Their focus on components and assemblies used
in minimally invasive procedures has allowed them to enjoy excellent
growth producing small, precise products for leading edge surgical and
interventional companies. The availability of experienced engineers,
skilled operators and supply chain partners in Massachusetts has enabled
Tegra Medical to maintain ample capacity and to be very responsive to
our clients’ growing needs, executing on our model of providing
solutions, speed and service. Learn more HERE.

Lilliputian Systems of Wilmington

Lilliputian is developing a revolutionary miniature power source, the
Silicon Power Cell™ that has demonstrated significant performance
advantages over all other technologies. It has the potential to
fundamentally revolutionize energy-storage for billions of Consumer
Electronics devices. The company is currently evaluating partners for
integration, branding and distribution of its first product – a USB
Mobile Power Source. Prototype devices have been tested or are currently
under test at a number of Fortune 500 CE firms around the world.
Lilliputian’s Silicon Power Cell™ is based on innovative MEMS work
conducted at MIT, and the chip also can be integrated into a number of
next generation devices enabling phones that last for weeks or laptops
that run for days. The company has raised over US$90M from premiere
entities such as Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, Atlas Venture,
Kleiner Perkins and Stata Ventures (among others) and boasts an enviable
management team and Board of Directors. Learn more HERE.