BUILD TO SCALE

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BUILD TO SCALE

Federal · ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION · #11.024

Entrepreneurs, especially technology entrepreneurs, flourish in healthy ecosystems. Technology-based economic development (TBED) grows ecosystems in which entrepreneurs can build and scale technology-driven businesses, which in turn create high-skill and high-wage jobs, economic opportunity, and the industries of the future. EDA’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE) awards grants through the Build to Scale (B2S) Program to foster technology-based ecosystems, to advance the growth of connected, innovation-centric economies that accelerate technology, and to enable commercialization

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BUILD TO SCALE

About this program

Entrepreneurs, especially technology entrepreneurs, flourish in healthy ecosystems. Technology-based economic development (TBED) grows ecosystems in which entrepreneurs can build and scale technology-driven businesses, which in turn create high-skill and high-wage jobs, economic opportunity, and the industries of the future. EDA’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE) awards grants through the Build to Scale (B2S) Program to foster technology-based ecosystems, to advance the growth of connected, innovation-centric economies that accelerate technology, and to enable commercialization to increase regional and global competitiveness.

Who can apply

County Government (inclusive of boroughs in Alaska, parishes and other governmental entities with geographic regional control and authority)Federally Recognized Indian/Native American/Alaska Native Tribal GovernmentOtherNonprofit OrganizationMunicipality or Township government (inclusive of cities, towns, boroughs (except in Alaska), and villages)Other Local Government Consortium, Regional Organization (Intrastate), or Other Local Government CombinationU.S. State Government (including the District of Columbia)

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Source: SAM.gov Assistance Listings ↗ · 2026

Informational only — official eligibility is determined by the administering agency.

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