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SafeLi, a Milwaukee company, is making faster charging, higher capacity and safer lithium ion batteries.
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Learn how your SBIR funding might be used in your business.
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Protect your Innovation
Did you know that SBIR.gov has online tutorials to assist you with 18 different topics, including the Patent Process?
The USPTO assists independent inventors, small business concerns, entrepreneurs and university affiliated inventors through its Office of Innovation Development. USPTO resources for inventors or entrepreneurs.
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We strive to build events that
help innovators!
CTC is planning an IP series of events, articles, and blogs to uncover the intricacies of Wisconsin TTOs and SBIR IP policy to better serve our clients. We want your feedback!
What do you want clarified about IP?
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My Business Can Change Lives Faster
Than What I Could Do in My
Research/Health Practice
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This was the overall message from the January 15 MCW & CTC hosted panel: Medical Innovation: Road to Patient Impact. The panel of three research and healthcare professionals, turned entrepreneurs, discussed their path from idea to business. Read full recap here.
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If you haven’t read the first post in this series, The 5 Min Interview- the 30 min plan, go back and check it out.
Okay- so now you have a plan or, importantly, you have updated your plans. How can you get the most learning in just 5 min?
This time, we focus on the power of your questions - The 5 Min Interview - The Power of "Why"
Want to get funded to work on your customer discovery? Check out Ideadvance.
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Evaluate your tech project from multiple angles to make a business case (and get paid to do it!).
SBIR Ready 2020 is now accepting Letters of Intent!
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Innovators, Technologists and Small Biz Owners! - Getting started or switching markets, focus on your important market activities (and receive up to $75K for it). Contact the New Idea Concierge to get the application process going.
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Air Force solicitation now open.
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AFWERX program application checklist - Five Steps to access AF SBIR funding
AFWERX is encouraging startups to apply for $50K in non-dilutive funding to bring much needed solutions that address Air Force challenges. This funding can be used for customer discovery! Through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, over 900 startups have successfully applied to compete for government business.
It is ideal that the technology addresses one of the eight key challenge areas.
The SBIR Round 1 application deadline February 12.
Learn more about how to unlock SBIR funds and apply.
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SBIR Support
NICHE Assessment (HHS)
The Niche Assessment Program is designed to help small businesses “jump start” their commercialization efforts. All active HHS (NIH, CDC, FDA) SBIR/STTR Phase I awardees and Phase I Fast-Track awardees (by grant or contract) are eligible to apply.
Registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis.
DOE Phase 0 Program
First time DOE SBIR/STTR applicants can receive free proposal writing assistance and general consulting. Registration is capped.
Apply today.
Access DOE's Proposal Prep Tutorials
NSF I-Corps Program
The NSF I-Corps Program helps researchers translate their academic research into real-world products by providing a working knowledge of how to think about their research from an end user/customer perspective.
Apply today.
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Solicitation Deadlines
2/12/2020
DOD Deadline
2/12/2020
Air Force Deadline
2/24/2020
DOE Deadline
4/5/2020
NIH Deadline
NSF Submission windows:
12/18/19 – 3/5/20
3/6/20 – 6/4/20
6/5/20 – 9/3/20
9/4/20 – 12/3/20
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SBIR/STTR Awardees are NOW ELIGIBLE
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Discovery to Product programs help catalyze campus innovation to impact the world
Are you an innovator with a creative solution that has the potential for commercial and/or social impact? Discovery to Product (D2P) is now accepting applications for two spring semester programs that help innovators, seekers of creative solutions, designers of novel approaches to social problems, and makers of impactful products move beyond ideas to implementation.
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