Bring Your Tech Innovations to Life with SBIR/STTR Programs
Acquire up to $850,000 through the SBIR/STTR Programs for Innovative Technology-Based R&D
Date: June 21, 2007
By attending this workshop you will learn: The Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of the Federal SBIR/STTR Programs and WEN (Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Network assistance. This workshop will help you explore federal funding sources you may not have previously considered for innovative new product development to reduce business, technical and marketing risks.
Do you:
- Have a technology-based innovative idea that requires feasibility, testing and prototype development efforts?
- Need university expertise to help you with your research efforts?
- Feel ready to take the leap into starting your technology-based business, but need high risk capital to prove your ideas first?
- Have an existing company that needs research and development capital for future products or services?
- Have a small technology-based company seeking to commercialize technologies for civilian and military markets as prime participants in federal research and development programs?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, come and learn if federal funding is a source of capital for your technology-based project or idea!
This workshop will help you explore federal funding sources you may not have previously considered for innovative new product development to reduce business, technical and marketing risks.
Who Should Attend:
- Technology-based companies
- Entrepreneurs
- Researchers
- Scientists
- Engineers
- Investors
Small Business Innovation Research SBIR represents a source of high risk capital for technology-based companies to explore their technological potential and provide the incentive to profit from its commercialization. Small Business Technology Transfer STTR requires technology-based companies and the nation's nonprofit research institutions to foster innovation collaboratively to meet the nation's scientific and technological challenges in the 21st century.
The SBIR and STTR programs support a wide array of technological innovations that lead to commercialization. These programs also encourage collaboration among our educational institutions, large companies, federal laboratories, and industry specific associations.
Wisconsin SBIR/STTR Success: Since 1983, Wisconsin's technology-based businesses have been awarded more than $163 million of SBIR and STTR funding, which has resulted in many new and innovative products and services for government and commercial customers in many sectors of industry.
Instructor
Pat Dillon joined the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Network on June 1, 2005, as the director of the Northwest Region/University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Previously, Dillon was the executive director of Minnesota Project Innovation, Inc. where she consulted with hundreds of companies in the SBIR and STTR Programs, resulting in more than 30 seed, early stage and emerging high technology companies to win more than $20 million in research awards.
Dillon is highly recognized nationally and locally for her knowledge and expertise in the SBIR and STTR programs. In 1999, she was awarded the prestigious Small Business Administration Tibbetts Award for her excellence in the SBIR/STTR Programs, and in 2001, she was recognized by City Business (Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal) as one of the 25 Most Innovative Women in Minneapolis.
Dillon has been a SBIR reviewer for the National Science Foundation and the United States Department of Agriculture, and was the Principal Investigator of an Office of Naval Research contract for the first ever SWIFT Tour (5-State SBIR Road Tour). Dillon graduated from Winona State University with a MBA and BS in Business Administration. Dillon is currently a Commander in the United States Navy Reserve with more than 28 years of service.