Bowie Business Innovation Center

The Bowie Business Innovation Center (Bowie bic) is a Business accelerator program where technology companies and government contractors in the city of Bowie and prince georges county access mentoring, technical assistance, counseling and connections to partnerss and capital to accelerate their Business growth. Headquartered at the Center for Business at Bowie state university, Bowie bic is the only Business accelerator in Maryland located at a historically black college (hbcu) in 2023, Bowie bics 107 accelerator program clients and graduates report generating jobs, xxxxx million in revenues, and supporting xxx internships for Bowie state university students. We also assisted county entrepreneurs, who participated in on-site training and counseling programs, in 2021, Center of excellence for 8(a) was established through a partnership between bsu and Bowie bic. The Center will expand the Bowie bic 8(a) accelerator program model through americas hbcu network. The Center will provide procurement capture strategy training, 8(a) mentorship programs, access to legal expertise in government contracting, and new opportunities for student internships and faculty researchers. The Center will be a resource and clearinghouse for best practices in 8(a) govenment contracting and utilize the data anallytics capabilities at bsu. It will build capacity at hbcus by creating a new, innovative infrastructure of succesful, diverse, and inclusive government contracting activity that will attract private sector capital to the hbcus.