Keynotes2005: Fred Patterson, President The SBIR Coach Title: "No-Strings Seed Capital for Technology Development: The US Federal SBIR Program" Abstract: The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program provides over $2.2 billion each year in a competitive process which provides funding for technology development for small businesses. The largest US Federal agencies (including the DOD, NIH, NSF, DOE, DHS, and NASA) solicit proposals for projects and provide funding for those judged to have the best innovative approaches, technical merit, scientific and management team strength, and future commercial potential. Projects are organized in three phases: Feasibility, Proof of Concept, and Commercialization. Funding is in the form of grants or contracts with no debt to service and no equity to give up. All intellectual property is retained by the proposing company. The SBIR Coach, Fred Patterson, will present an introduction to the elements of the SBIR program (and its sister STTR program that draws in universities as research partners) and provide some tips on how to gain competitive advantage and most effectively tap into this "no-strings" source of seed capital. 2004 and before: H. Fujii, M.I.T., Tokyo Japan M. Flynn, Stanford, USA D. Frezzo, CISCO, USA S. Mohler, Cisco Learning Institute, USA H. Nomura, Kyushu Institute of Technology A. Yanagiya, Waseda University, Japan P. LaForge, The Right Stuff, USA K. Musumbu, University of Bordeaux, France A. Hamfelt, Uppsala University, Sweden C. Rutledge, Purdue University Discovery Park, USA Dag von Lubitz, MedSmart, Michigan, USA, Laureate of the Smithsonian Award Nick Tredennick, USA David King, Comshare, Michigan, USA Boz Levi, NYU, New York, USA Oskar Mencer, Stanford, California, USA Ali Hurson, PenState, Pennsylvania, USA Dag De Grout, USA Kristina Kavi, USA Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA Steve Casselman, Virtual, LA, CA, USA Hsiungchu Lai, Taiwan Dragan Domazet, Singapore Mateo Valero, UPC, Catalonia, Spain Antonio Gonzalez, UPC, Catalonia, Spain Per Stenstrom, Chalmers University, Goeteborg, Sweden Antonio Prete, University of Pisa, Italy Reiner Hartenstein, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Saverio Salerno, Salerno, Italy Frederic Patricelli, L'Aquila, Italy Andrea Domenici, Pisa, Italy Julio Sahuquillo, Valencia, Spain |