Events Details
March 10, 2010
NEW Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Programs Monthly Webinar Series
SERIES DESCRIPTION:
This online webinar series is for researchers and universities looking to commercialize inventions through startup creation and funding using the over $2 Billion Federal SBIR/STTR Program.
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. Often times, university research results in a discovery that may have commercial potential but needs further research. 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.
Each month the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2) will hold a series of webinars that highlight specific SBIR programs, each presented by one of the SBIR Program Managers. Entrepreneurs and researchers seeking to start new small businesses will learn how to work with each program and the priorities for each one in order to increase their application success rate.
This Month:
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Wednesday, March 10, 3:00-4:00pm ET (12:00-1:00 pm PT)
Speaker:
Clara Asmail
(SBIR Program Manager, Technology Marketing Program Manager, National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Description of this webinar:
The goals of the SBIR Program include the commercialization of innovations derived from federal R&D;and the use of small business to meet federal research and development (R&D;) needs. The intent of the SBIR Program dovetails with the NIST mission to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life. NIST has for many years deployed the SBIR Program as a way to engage small businesses in meeting its R&D;needs. Since 2008, there has been an additional and novel approach pioneered at NIST SBIR to support small businesses by providing access to technologies developed by NIST which require private sector innovation to overcome roadblocks to commercialization.
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Click here to register for this free webinar
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COST: Free, but registration required.
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.
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 grad students, post-docs, university chief research officers, directors of economic development, corporate business development directors and academic liaisons, university professors and corporate researchers.