** Please forward to your research staff **
"SBIR, The 11 Participating Federal Agencies and the
Important Ways in Which They Differ"
Wednesday, 9 February 2011, 1:00-2:30 pm ET
This free webinar will provide a generalized overview of the federal SBIR program. There will be a focus on the major differences between the agencies that implement SBIR and how these differences affect the way proposals are accepted and reviewed. It is
sponsored by the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer, and presenters are:
Clara Asmail
Sr. Technical Advisor, MEP
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Frank Barros
SBIR Program Manager
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
About the SBIRs:
SBIRs/STTRs are the principal federal programs to fund research and development for the express purpose of commercialization. These programs are designed to stimulate small business technological innovation and cutting-edge research
that addresses the nation’s most critical scientific and engineering needs, and to provide incentive to profit from its commercialization. The SBIR/STTR program may be a natural next step for those university investigators with commercially viable ideas that
need to be proven and further developed.
Federal agencies with extramural (external) R&D budgets in excess of $100 million must allocate 2.5% of these funds for competitive grants to small companies. There are presently 11 participating agencies with a total of almost $2.5 billion available for SBIR
annually:
- Department of Defense
- Department of Health and Human Services (NIH, CDC, FDA)
- National Science Foundation
- NASA
- Department of Energy
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Commerce (NIST, NOAA)
- Department of Education
- Department of Transportation
- Environmental Protection Agency
COST:
Free, but registration required by clicking on the link above.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE?: This series is online. You need a computer with web access for the visual/audio. Q&A is conducted by a chat box to the speakers. Once registered to the webinar series you will receive a separate email with the
webinar url 24 hours before the start of the webinar.
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN THE WEBINAR?: These webinars are open to anyone interested in how universities and industry can seek funding for their collective efforts . This can include university chief research officers, directors of economic
development, corporate business development directors and academic liaisons, university professors and corporate researchers.