SEED-Stimulating and Enhancing Entrepreneurial Development

9418848 Huskamp这个Metacenter区域联盟（MRA），通过其种子（刺激和加强创业发展）计划，将解决以下问题，这些问题被确定为加速向个体小企业转移计算技术的障碍： - 将宝贵的公司精力用于采用新技术的固有风险--必须投入大量的工作人员时间来探索这种技术的应用--对培训、顾问和计算时间的需求--这些服务的可获得性。 北卡罗来纳州的小企业推广模式将根据元中心目前使用的学术分配模式实施。 未来几年将招募更多的州，并将利用现有合作伙伴的专业知识、以前的项目经验以及MRA已经到位的资源。 南方技术理事会将带头在种子计划中招募新的州。 元中心的参与对该计划的成功至关重要。 通过与元中心的这种联系，SEED计划可以将小企业与他们通常无法访问的国家资源联系起来。

9418848 Huskamp This Metacenter Regional Alliance (MRA), through its SEED (Stimulating and Enhancing Entrepreneurial Development) program, will address the following, identified as barriers to accelerating the transfer of computational technology to individual small businesses: - the inherent risk in devoting precious corporate energy to the adoption of new technology - the amount of staff time that must be invested to explore applications of this technology - the need for training, consultants, and computing time - accessibility of these services. A model for small business outreach in North Carolina will be implemented based on the academic allocation model currently in use by the metacenter. Additional states will be recruited in the following years, and will leverage expertise from existing partners, previous project experience, and the resources already in place at the MRA. The Southern Technology Council will take the lead in recruiting new states in the SEED program. Participation form the metacenter is crucial to the success of this program. With this linkage to the metacenter, the SEED program can connect small businesses to national resources that are normally not accessible to them.