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NSF SBIR/STTR: Mastering the Culture (or) How to Improve Your Chances of Securing SBIR/STTR Grants

TomKat guest speaker: Errol Arkilic

Event Details:

Sunday, October 27, 2013

The TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy is pleased to host Errol Arkilic, former NSF SBIR Program Manager and the founding Innovation Corps Lead Program Director. Errol spent ten years at NSF, eight as a program director leading the Software and Services and Security (Nano/Bio/IT) Technology portfolios. For the past two years, he led the Innovation Corps program before leaving NSF in July of 2013. In this presentation, Errol will share his experience in managing SBIR projects.

You will learn first hand from someone who has personally reviewed approximately 1000 SBIR/STTR proposals. Errol will describe where the SBIR/STTR program funds sit in the spectrum of available support and how to make the highest use of the program funds to mitigate risks to attract additional resources. He will also describe how to best position your effort to increase the probability that it will resonate with reviewers and what you you should be doing prior to submitting a proposal in order to increase your chances at success with the program and beyond.

Target Audience: Researchers and early-stage entrepreneurs (with some understanding of NSF) working on taking high-risk, technology-enabled projects to market.

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