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SBIR STTR
University of Central FloridaSchool of EECS
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program
Established by Congress in 1982 to provide increased opportunities for small businesses to participate in R&D, to increase employment and to improve U.S. competitiveness
The program's specific objectives are stimulate U.S. technological innovation use small businesses to meet federal R&D needs increase private-sector commercialization of innovations derived
from federal R&D foster and encourage participation by socially disadvantaged
businesses Legislation enacted in 2000 increased its emphasis on
pursuing commercial applications of SBIR project results Florida was #13 in SBIR dollars in 2004.
Funding Criteria
Must be High-payback Innovations involving High Risk Must have High Commercial Potential Demonstrate Strategic Partnerships with Research
Collaborators, Customers and Equity Investors The NSF SBIR/STTR program does NOT fund:
Evolutionary optimization of existing products and processes, modifications to broaden the scope of an existing product, process or application
Analytical or “market” studies of technologies Broad-scale “beta” testing of products or processes with no
innovative scientific component
Three Phases
Phase I (up to $100K for 6 months) Technical merit – Concept design Minimum of 66% to business
Phase II (up to $750K for 2 years) Proof of Concept / Product Prototype Minimum of 50% to business
Phase III (Investors) Commercialization
Company Characteristics
American-owned (at least 51%) Independently operated For-profit Principal researcher employed by business Company size limited to 500 employees
Participants
Department of Agriculture Department of Commerce Department of Defense Department of Education Department of Energy Department of Health and Human Services Department of Homeland Security Department of Transportation Environmental Protection Agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Science Foundation
Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)
Smaller pot of money than SBIRs Contracts to small business for cooperative
research and development with a non-profit research institution (RI), such as a university
Facilitates the transfer of technology developed by an RI through the entrepreneurship of a small business.
Small business and RI sign an agreement on how intellectual property will be shared
Florida was #8 in STTR dollars in 2004
Three Phases
Phase I (up to $150K for 12 months) Technical merit – Concept design Minimum of 40% to business; 30% to RI
Phase II (up to $750K for 2 years) Proof of Concept / Product Prototype Minimum of 50% to business
Phase III (Investors) Commercialization
Company Characteristics
American-owned (at least 51%) Independently operated For-profit Principal researcher need not be employed
by business Company size limited to 500 employees
Participants
Department of Defense Department of Energy Department of Health and Human Services National Aeronautics and Space
Administration National Science Foundation
More Incentives from NSF
REU GRS Bridge funding (1:2)
Who Submits and Who is PI?
Grant always comes from small business On SBIR, PI is from business On STTR, PI can be from RI
Except NSF where PI is always from business
Examples in EECS
Issa Batarseh: Seven Phase I, and Four Phase II
NASA, NSF, Air Force, Navy, Army UCF Spin-Off: APECOR (Research Park)
Charlie Hughes: Three Phase I in last year
Education (SBIR), NSF (STTR), Air Force (STTR) Two Phase II proposals we are waiting on UCF Spin-off: Simiosys (research Park) Company moved to area: VRMC (downtown and Lake Nona)
John Shen: Three Phase I, one Phase II
NASA, Navy, Air Force UCF Spin-Off: APECOR and Electrodynamics (Research Park)
Annie Wu (NSF STTR Phase I); Mike Moshell (ARI Phase I) Joe LaViola (NSF Phase I: Brown Spinoff in Somerville MA) Don Malocha, Ron DeMara, etc.
APECOR SBIR (1-6) / STTR (7)
1. NASA-KSC – Power Factor Correction –Phase I and II2. NSF – High Frequency DC-DC – Phase I3. US Air Force: Parallel Connected Converters with
Innovative Control Phases I and II4. US Army: Variable-Voltage, bi-directional dc-dc Converter
Phases I and II5. US Navy: Compact High-Power DC-DC Converter for
Navy Non-Explosive Acoustic Sources Phase I6. NASA: Integrated Three-Port Converters for Compact and
Efficient Power Management Phases I and II7. US Navy: Power Generating Backpack Phase I STTR
MCL SBIR/STTR 2006-2007
1. Department of Education, SBIR Phase I: Simiosys LLC
2. National Science Foundation, STTR Phase I : VRMC
3. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, STTR Phase I : VRMC
Issa BatarsehProfessor & Director
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Director, Florida Power Electronics Center
E-Mail: batarseh@mail.ucf.edu
Home Page: http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/people/faculty.php?faculty=batarseh
Florida Power Electronics Center : http://floridapec.engr.ucf.edu
Contact information
Charles E. HughesProfessor & Associate Director
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Director, Media Convergence Lab
E-Mail: ceh@cs.ucf.edu
Home Page: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~ceh/
Media Convergence Lab: http://mcl.ucf.edu
Contact information
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