Resources

Funding Resources

CDC Funding Opportunities : Provide insight into CDC funding opportunities.
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR): Funding program that encourages small businesses to engage in federal research and development that has the potential for commercialization.
Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR): Program that funds cooperative research and development projects with small businesses in partnership with not-for profit research institutions to move research to the marketplace.
U.S. Small Business Administration : Provides resources to help small businesses thrive.
Georgia Research Alliance : Initiative expands research commercialization capacity by funding research at Georgia’s universities to launch companies and create high level jobs.

NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps): Public-private partnership program that teaches grantees and researchers how to transfer research into products.
Kauffman FastTrac TechVenture : Course designed to teach scientists how to transform their technologies into commercially viable products.

USPTO IP Awareness : USPTO makes a tool available that assesses users’ intellectual property knowledge and provides personalized training in intellectual property for inventors.
USPTO Inventor Resources : USPTO provides inventor assistance, education, and a bi-monthly newsletter to help innovators with the patent process.
Federal Lab Consortium (FLC) Webinars : FLC offers educational training on technology transfer with a federal lab focus.
Free Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Webinars : AUTM offers free webinars on a variety of technology transfer topics. Some content applies to Federal technology transfer as well.