Global Bridge: Equipping Global Entrepreneurs

Governments and regional economies partner with Larta to build the competitiveness of their innovation infrastructure and enterprise development initiatives. Global Bridge programs inform and equip innovators, policy-makers, investors, universities and research institutes that spin out new ventures. Our international projects include work with government organizations from Canada, Japan, Brazil, Australia, Israel, Sweden, Russia, New Zealand, Korea, Taiwan, Finland, and Hong Kong.

Our Global Bridge program extends Larta Institute's commercialization and innovation development expertise to the rest of the world. Global Bridge helps foreign government agencies and non-governmental organizations develop their economies by preparing companies to successfully compete in regional, U.S. and international markets.

Global Bridge helps regions cultivate valuable partnerships by connecting companies, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations to relevant industry and investment professionals from the United States and other countries. The program is designed to foster scientific, technological and economic cooperation between foreign regions and the United States by facilitating relationships among innovative businesses, scientists, investors, and economic development professionals.

Benefits for Foreign Governments and Organizations

Technology businesses produce significant revenues with relatively little impact on regional infrastructures or demands for government services. Regional governments can significantly benefit through an increase in corporate and individual tax revenues. Unlike manufacturing, technology businesses produce relatively little pollution. Unlike tourism and other service-based businesses, technology companies attract significant foreign investment, and help foster a "knowledge economy" that produces high-paying jobs, enhances and utilizes scientific research at regional universities, and draws highly educated and skilled professionals to the area, which in turn benefits real estate development as well as restaurants and other service-based businesses.

Global Bridge program complements the efforts of foreign business development and technology transfer support organizations. Larta Institute works side-by-side with foreign government and non-governmental organizations and policy makers. Our program is custom-designed to enhance and extend existing development efforts.

Benefits For Foreign Entrepreneurs and Innovators

Global Bridge promotes concrete transactional relationships between foreign companies and the U.S. investment and corporate communities. The program entails much more than a training process. Larta Institute helps prepare companies to understand the U.S. market, assists companies to identify the right contacts, and provides the means for those companies to form relationships with potential investors and partners.

Global Bridge helps foreign companies develop effective management strategies and practices through a comprehensive and intensive entrepreneurial training and incubation program. Topics include: Intellectual Property Management, Market Opportunity Research, Management and Board Development, Global Strategic Alliances, Business Model Development, Marketing and Selling, Pitching and Presenting, and Financing.