Grant topics
Go to Grant Topic Solicitations.
To perform a key word search of solicitations and related calendars, go to SBIR World.
Choosing the right proposal topic is crucial to SBIR success. Choose one that advances your business plan and that will work with your technology. Ten agencies participate in the SBIR program, and five of these also participate in the STTR program.
Every year, these agencies list R&D topics of interest on their web sites. These agencies will provide approximately 1.2 billion dollars annually to fund SBIR and STTR research efforts.
While each federal agency manages its own SBIR/STTR program, including topic solicitations, proposal evaluations, and award decisions, the SBA has oversight over the SBIR and STTR programs.
Locate a federal agency and target one of their research topics.
- Consider all of the agency's topic solicitations. Agencies regularly update their solicitation release and submission dates.
- Check each individual agency's SBIR web site for specific information and tips about solicitations, submitting proposals, and past award information.
- Many agencies have unique requirements for their proposals.
- Examining an agency's topics helps you select appropriate research interests for that agency. For example, the Department of Energy performs work on the human genome, despite the impression that this research may be unrelated to energy.
- Don't assume that an agency is uninterested in an innovation until you examine the solicitation.
- All the necessary information can be found in each agency's solicitation.
You can find past award winner's abstracts for each agency on the SBA tech-net site. This will help you understand the types of projects that an agency is funding.
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