SBIR/STTR Assistance Program

Purpose
This program serves as the liaison between the 11 federal agencies who provide funds, via the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program, and small businesses who wish to compete in the high-tech, high-risk areas of product, process, and service development. It also provides networking services with educational facilities and trade organizations focused on technology development and to other federal funding opportunities.

Customers and Services
Primary customers are small businesses seeking funds for high-risk research and development (R&D). Secondary customers are nonprofit research institutions and for-profit corporations seeking to collaborate on commercializing high-risk R&D. DEED provides SBIR/STTR-related support such as targeting appropriate agencies and developing strategies, forming research teams, connecting to resources, developing/reviewing proposals and budgets, and holding educational workshops.

The SBIR Program awards federal R&D funding to small businesses, encouraging the entrepreneurial sector to compete on the same level as larger businesses in exploring their technological potential and profiting from its commercialization. The STTR Program awards federal R&D funding to small business and nonprofit research institution partnerships, introducing entrepreneurial skills to high-tech research efforts so the resulting technologies and products are transferred from the laboratory to the marketplace. Both programs fund the critical startup and development stages and encourage the commercialization of the technology, product, or service, which, in turn, stimulates the economy.

Measures - Reporting period is state fiscal year (SFY), July 1 - June 30

Funding Source and Expenditure (in thousands)

Statutory Authority
-- Small Business Innovation Research Reauthorization Act of 2000, Public Law 106-554; Small Business Technology Transfer Reauthorization Act of 2001, Public Law 107-50

Contact Information
Betsy Lulfs, Director
Phone: 651.259.7441 or toll-free: 800.657.3858; TTY: 651.296.3900

This information current as of January 2010.