US NSF - Dear Colleague Letter: Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business T... - 1 views
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The Directorate for Engineering’s Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships’ Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs invites all active SBIR/STTR Phase I grantees to participate in the Phase IB supplemental funding opportunity. Phase IB supplements to Phase I grantees are intended to foster partnerships between strategic partners and investors and the SBIR/STTR companies.
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Through this supplemental program, small businesses will be able to effectively leverage funding and investment from interested outside parties on the technology funded in Phase I that could lead to successful commercial products and processes and at the same time provide some of the gap funding required to carry the grantees' effort from Phase I to Phase II.
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The objective of the Phase IB option is to extend the R&D efforts beyond the current grant to meet the product/process/software requirements of a third party investor to accelerate the Phase I project to the commercialization stage and enhance the overall strength of the commercial potential of the subsequent Phase II project. The Phase IB option extends the Phase I grant for six months, and the combined Phase I and IB project will typically not exceed one year in duration for the SBIR grant and one and one half years for the STTR grant.
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SBIR Phase 1B awards in conjunction with venture firms targeting this space might be prime prospects for the DTSE Methodology and commercialization services. I wonder if there is an easy way to get a list of currently active SBIR Phase I projects?
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I think is what Bob mentioned as a good thing for the grants he is working on? .. . maybe he has list.. he seems focused on grants these days