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Montana Technology Innovation Partnership

Paving the Technology Path to Economic Development!

WHAT IS MTIP?

The Montana Technology Innovation Partnership (MTIP) is a Montana Department of Commerce initiative created to promote technology commercialization as a viable economic development strategy for the State of Montana. Our mission is to help build the short-term benefits of technology research and development into the long-term rewards of economic development.

Building on the Montana SBIR Outreach Program's past six years of successfully supporting Montana applicants to the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, MTIP has emerged with a broader purpose.

The state's support of small technology firms is expanded to all sectors of Montana's burgeoning technology-business community, regardless of their involvement with SBIR and STTR. MTIP is driven by five targeted objectives: