In addition to the governmental agencies with helpful resources for entrepreneurs and innovators accessible through links provided in the Other Resources-General Information Re: Legal Issues and Forms section of this website, there are many help centers/networks throughout the country, on a national, regional and local scale. KCSourceLink” (see http://www.kcsourcelink.com/ ) as a valuable tool connecting entrepreneurship facilitators and resources in the Kansas City region which won the U.S. Department of Commerce’s 2007 Excellence in Economic Development Award for Enhancing Regional Competitiveness. The KCSourceLink model has now evolved into USSourceLink (seehttp://www.ussourcelink.com/). Some other notable examples of help centers/networks for entrepreneurs in the U.S. are:
State/Regional:
- State Advocacy for Microenterprise website section at http://www.cfed.org/programs/SMA_Capacity_Building_Toolkit/public_policy/state_advocacy_for_microenterprise/index.html
- Georgia Micro Enterprise Network at http://georgiamicrobiz.org/
- MassChallenge at http://www.masschallenge.org/
- MicroBizNY at http://www.microbizny.org/
- Northwest Entrepreneur Network at http://www.nwen.org/
- Oregon Entrepreneurs Network at http://www.oen.org/
- Oregon Microenterprise Network at http://oregon-microbiz.org/
- The Entrepreneur’s Network (Upstate New York) at http://ten-ny.org
- Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Network athttp://www.wenportal.org/index.htm
- Small Business Development Centers throughout the U.S. --see SBDC Locator at http://www.sba.gov/about-sba-offices