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

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