SpringBoard's mission is to provide Alaskan businesses with financial and technical tools so they can develop products and services that can help meet the needs of the Department of Defense. Technology Transfer is the process of developing practical, commercial applications from scientific research.

SpringBoard, a program of the Juneau Economic Development Council, is a statewide program to help transfer and commercialize US Department of Defense (DoD) technology. To do this, we make use of the wealth of DoD research, inventions, patents and laboratory facilities and the entrepreneurship of Alaskan businesses. As an important component of this program, Springboard is launching an initiative to enhance science and math programs.

What SpringBoard does:

• Help existing companies identify and screen appropriate Department of Defense technologies which can be licensed and commercialized..
  
• Identify new technologies in the private sector which can be utilized by DoD at the national and international levels and help to get these into DoD operational use.
  
• Facilitate joint projects between DoD and private companies, as well as between agencies and academic institutions - to further commercialize Dept. of Defense technologies.
  
• Assist entrepreneurs in the start-up of new companies and the commercialization of DoD technologies by providing intensive business assistance.
  
• Provide teachers with the support and tools they need to effectively and engagingly teach math and the sciences in K-12 classes in Alaska.
  

New businesses grow and diversify Alaska's economy. We believe that the potential for Alaskan enterprises to develop productive business relationships with the Department of Defenses is significant and largely untapped.