Business Services

InterTech Park is more than a corporate location, it is a partner. Your business is bringing technology innovation to the market place. Our business is helping you achieve success. As a business partner we can provide you with key value-added services:

 

      • Access to business planning assistance and a robust local, state, and federal financial incentive programs
      • Access to creative facility financing and turnkey real estate development services
      • Access to wet and dry lab business incubator facilities
      • Access to angel and seed through late stage venture capital
      • Access to academic research support, core science facilities, personnel development & training support through CERT

InterTech tenants have access to a local, state and national risk capital network.

 

    • Seed and early stage capital can be accessed through a North Louisiana Angel Fund and its relationships with a network of funds.
    • The InterTech Venture Fund is operated by the Biomedical Research Foundation and selectively invests in companies located in the park.
    • Louisiana Ventures is an early and mid-stage venture fund operated by VCE Capital Partners and headquartered in InterTech, with additional offices in Baton Rouge , New Orleans and New York City .
    • In addition to these early stage investment resources, InterTech tenants are provided access to numerous later stage Louisiana and national venture funds.

The LSU Health Shreveport Research Core Facility (RCF) is available to InterTech tenants on a fee for use basis. Being continuously upgraded, it currently contains instrumentation for eight separate technologies. Each instrument is operated by a Research Associate and overseen by an LSU Health Shreveport faculty member. Available instrumentation includes:

    • Automated Cellular Imaging System
    • Confocal Microscopy
    • DNA Array (Chip) Analysis (DC)
    • Flow Cytometry with Macintosh computers for off-line analysis of data
    • Fluorescence Microscopy
    • Laser Capture Micro-dissection
    • Mass Spectrometry
    • Real-Time PCR
    • Multi-photon Confocal Lab

In addition, InterTech tenants have access to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) equipment at Centenary College , one of the CERT institutions located adjacent to the Park.

Animal Care Facilities
A 37,000 square foot, AAALAC-accredited animal care facility is staffed by research veterinarians and certified technicians. It provides two BSL-3 laboratories, specialized rooms for housing animals in isolation, and several special procedure rooms. The facility can house a variety of species including dogs, cats, pigs, mice, rats, and guinea pigs. An off campus farm houses larger animals such as cows, sheep, and goats. Two Louisiana locations provide access to non-human primates: the Tulane National Primate Center and the New Iberia Research Center.

Animal Imaging Facility
The Small Animal Imaging Facility is a state of the art center for molecular imaging located within the barrier facility of the Animal Resources Program. The facility offers micro-positron emission tomography (microPET), micro-computed assisted tomography (microCT), and optical imaging including in vivo chemiluminescence and fluorescence imaging capabilities. Isotopes for the microPET are provided to investigators by the Biomedical Research Foundation.

LSU Health Shreveport maintains a clinical trials office to facilitate access to its patient population for approved clinical trials. LSU Health Shreveport has over 32 years of experience in conducting clinical trials in 32 medical specialties, and offers clinical trials capabilities in over 100 therapeutic areas in Phase I-IV clinical trials and Gene Therapy trials. The Center offers a diverse patient population, including a large minority population and a new state-of-the-art Cancer Treatment Center.

A list of current trials and clinical research units can be found on the web site.

Facility Services

The Biomedical Research Foundation provides facility planning, development and operational services to InterTech tenants, helping your company stay focused on what you do best: bringing your technology to market.

The Foundation’s facilities maintenance and operations department has been involved in developing and operating a variety of BRF and tenant owned properties, including life science laboratory buildings, BSL-3 facilities, cyclotron and imaging facilities and a biomanufacturing plant.

Currently we have 400,000 SF of technical properties under operational management. Department staff includes licensed electricians, plumbers, HVAC technicians with refrigerant certification, and personnel trained in building automation and security systems. The department utilizes a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to develop and maintain a database of all plant equipment maintenance requirements.

At your request, the Foundation can:

    • Recommend/coordinate A&E design team selection process
    • Recommend/coordinate construction manager selection process
    • Recommend/coordinate contractor selection process
    • Provide physical plant management services through the BRF facilities department

Provide you with knowledge of qualified regional suppliers and physical plant service providers

Incentives

The State of Louisiana , Caddo Parish, the City of Shreveport and the BRF can often provide a variety of competitive incentives to qualified InterTech tenants. Biomedical Research Foundation staff assists tenants in accessing federal, state, and local grants and business incentives.

In addition to these competitive incentives, there are significant operating cost advantages for Intertech compared to other biotechnology hub locations.

State & Local Incentives

Biomedical Research Foundation staff work with Park clients to access and tailor available Louisiana incentives to support company needs. Incentive programs can be viewed at Louisiana Economic Development. These programs include:

  • Quality Jobs Program
  • Workforce Development & Training Program
  • Incumbent Worker Training Program
  • Industrial Property Tax Exemption Program
  • Enterprise Zone Program
  • Film, Video & Digital Tax Credits
  • Film & Video Sales Tax Exemption
  • Single Factor Apportionment Income Tax
  • Corporate Tax Equalization Program
  • Angel Investor Tax Credit
  • FAST Start Program
  • Inventory Tax Credit
  • Economic Development Assistance Program
  • Biotechnology Sales/Use Tax Exemption
  • R&D Tax Credit Program
  • University Technology Commercialization Tax Credit Program

Cost Advantage Example

Looking for a biotechnology location with low operating costs and a trained life science workforce? A notable site selection consultant (The Boyd Company of Princeton , NJ ) published a study entitled Comparative Cost Analysis for North American Biomedical Industry Operations. The study modeled the cost to operate a 75,000 SF life science facility in 50 cities across North America , factoring in labor, electric, lease, corporate travel, heating, air conditioning and amortization costs. In the Total Annual Operating Cost Rankings , Shreveport was ranked the 4th most cost-effective location in North America , being 25% to 35% less costly than west coast and northeast locations, and 10% to 25% less costly than mid-Atlantic east coast locations.

 

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