What We Do

Our mission is to promote prosperity and public welfare in New Mexico through economic development.

Arrowhead Center performs wide-ranging services that contribute to the creation and expansion of small businesses in New Mexico. These services and products include:

• Provide business assistance, including business plan development
• Provide entrepreneurship education and training
• Analyze policy issues affecting New Mexico
• Incubate businesses at the Arrowhead Research Park
• Identify labor and training needs associated with commercial enterprises
• Spin-off commercially viable business concepts and technologies
• Protect, license, and commercialize NMSU intellectual property
• Connect key players in the business and economic development process

Arrowhead has been in existence since 2004, with rapid growth in services provided to faculty, staff, students, entrepreneurs, small business, investors, and venture capitalists. Since its inception, the Center has completed more than 150 business research projects involving more than 200 undergraduate and graduate students, fostered the spin-off of a university genetics testing laboratory resulting in a new for-profit corporation, and completed several state-level economic studies. Arrowhead has exceeded expectations and will continue to provide quality services to New Mexico.