Researchers and companies must develop increasingly complex products and ever-shortened product life cycles. To meet new product development challenges, the ability to innovate requires significantly larger numbers of experiments and therefore longer development time, thus increasing the cost of bringing a product to market. Combinatorial materials formulation science can mitigate the cost of and expedite complex developments.

The National Formulation Science Laboratory, located in The Accelerator, includes a high output formulation laboratory that will provide researchers with the ability to conduct hundreds of experiments simultaneously, reducing development costs, time and preparing industry to deliver innovative new products more rapidly.

The Mississippi Polymer Institute (MPI) is a full-service resource for polymer-related industries. MPI operates The Accelerator's high bay pilot/processing facility, where new products can be scaled up to commercial development quantities and tested for composition and performance characteristics. MPI provides the expertise and assistance in interpreting testing results. MPI’s services also include:

1. Providing analytical services for new business laboratory research activities
   
2. Providing physical testing for new product application and qualification
   
3. Providing prototype development support for new product application and qualification
   
4. Assisting in new product pilot manufacture

Noetic Technologies, Inc., located in The Accelerator, is an innovation and commercialization company. Noetic specializes in bringing new technology to market. Their leadership team’s experience includes technology development, commercialization plans, process engineering, scale up, marketing, and business start-ups.

Noetic’s business structure allows the opportunity for a wide range of development structures including licensing, joint venturing, joint development, and business start-up development.