On September 28th the Center for Technology Commercialization (CTC) in partnership with Discovery to Product (D2P) hosted an event called Moving Your Tech Out Of Academia during UW Innovate Week.
SBIR/STTR Assistance Micro-grants
SBIR Training for Entrepreneurial Support Staff
CTC hosted BBCetc, SBIR experts, for a webinar on April 19th.
SBIR Proposals That Stand Out in the Crowd: 7 Golden Rules
This is not a rigorous treatise on proposal writing or Grantsmanship 101.
Preparing an Easy to Read Proposal
Making your proposal easy to read An often overlooked aspect of an SBIR proposal involves neglecting to realize your reviewers are people who have to wade through a slew of proposals quickly and efficiently.
COnovate (formerly SafeLi) Named Wisconsin Innovation Award Winner
Congratulations to SafeLi — a CTC client, and SBIR Advance awardee, for receiving a 2020 Wisconsin Innovation Award SafeLi, based in Shorewood, discovered Graphene Monoxide, a nano-material that may enable enhanced safety for the use of lithium-ion batteries.
Sell your team through your biosketch
Why should an SBIR/STTR agency hire your company? While you may have a really innovative technology, it will be your team that does the work. Spending time on the biographical sketch is your opportunity to reinforce your team’s experience and highlight your credentials towards the specific role you will have on this company’s SBIR/STTR project.
Show me the money! The Importance of Budget Preparation.
After spending months planning your experiments and detailing your approach, you are now ready for the budget.
Planning to submit? What you should be doing NOW!
I often get calls from clients who wish to submit an SBIR/STTR grant with a deadline only a couple of weeks or even days away.
Make beginning a 1st draft less daunting with these simple steps
Don’t know where to start?? Follow our guide to building the first draft of your SBIR proposal.
Is SBIR/STTR a Fit for Me? Take the T.E.S.T
Is SBIR/STTR a Fit for Me? Take the T.E.S.T Here is a simple test with some Go – No Go criteria to see if SBIR/STTR is a fit for your company.