We’re Changing How Small Businesses Connect with Government Innovators

At Mobilize, we are intimately familiar with the small businesses landscape within the government innovation space. We should be … we had to navigate it ourselves to bring the VISION Joint Innovation System to life.?

We firmly believe that when small businesses succeed, government innovation thrives.

Why is that? Because innovation is about relationships. It’s why we built VISION—to close the gap between those with problems and those with the right ideas, tools and resources to solve them. Often, a small business with a specialized set of tools and skills is the solution, but that business may not yet be visible to the innovator.?

Mobilize is on a mission to change how companies and innovation and improvement teams connect.

Last week, we hosted our first-ever VELOCITY Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) ‘Ask Me Anything’ to share our story and speak directly with small businesses in the government space.

During the discussion, Mobilize VISION CEO Jade Baranski gave their advice on topics including digital resources and the importance of relationships in the innovations space. Understanding stakeholders’ organizations as well as making the right connections with other businesses is critical.

“One of the things I have been really impressed with in this community is how collaborative everyone is. We happen to have a lot of data and a lot of understanding of what demand signals look like in the DoD … especially in the innovation space. All we’re doing is adding more benefit—we’re creating more opportunities for small businesses.” - Jade Baranski

Our goal with these conversations is simple: we want to make it easier for small businesses to connect with government innovators. We designed VISION with this in mind.

With the Company Connector feature, VISION users can now see industry partners in the same space where innovation is managed that could provide products or services to meet their needs.?

How can I get involved?

VISION users - check out the Company Connector feature and explore based on focus areas relevant to your initiatives.??

Government stakeholders - direct industry partners to VELOCITY (send them this link) to put their business in front of thousands of active innovators.

Small businesses - click here to claim your spot at our next AMA to learn more and share ideas!

Have questions or want to collaborate? Email us at [email protected].