SBIR

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grants Still Open Thru 2017

Entrepreneurs / Science Guys (and Gals),

Are you ready for a challenge, and 150,000 USD to begin to pursue your challenge?

That’s just SBIR Phase I, Concept Development (~6 months).  The second phase, Prototype Development, may be funded up to 1 MM USD, and last 24 months.

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is a highly competitive program that encourages domestic small businesses to engage in Federal Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) that has the potential for commercialization. Through a competitive awards-based program, SBIR enables small businesses to explore their technological potential and provides the incentive to profit from its commercialization. By including qualified small businesses in the nation’s R&D arena, high-tech innovation is stimulated and the United States gains entrepreneurial spirit as it meets its specific research and development needs.

The program’s goals are four-fold:
  1. Stimulate technological innovation.
  2. Meet Federal research and development needs.
  3. Foster and encourage participation in innovation and entrepreneurship by socially and economically disadvantaged persons.
  4. Increase private-sector commercialization of innovations derived from Federal research and development funding.

For more information on the program, please click here to download the latest SBIR Overview, which should have everything you need to know about the initiative.

Time is quickly running out to 1) Pick one of the Solicitation Topics provided by the US government; and 2) Submit your Proposal

For my query of the SBIR database of topics up for Contracts and Grants:  Phase I; Program = SBIR; Year = 2017

From that query, it produced 18 Contract / Grant opportunities.  Here are a few I thought would be interesting:

PAS-17-022
PAS-17-022
PAR-17-108
PAR-17-108
RFA-ES-17-004
RFA-ES-17-004
RFA-DA-17-010
RFA-DA-17-010

Click Here for the current, complete list of topics by the SBIR.  

 

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