How to Leverage SBIR/STTR Research

Oct
20
2022
Thu 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Topic: Financing and Capital

How to Leverage SBIR/STTR Research is a seminar introducing Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer(STTR) research funding programs. This seminar will teach you about the SBIR/STTR programs, and the $4B they make available each year to tech companies. We will cover the following: *SBIR/STTR grant basics *Summary of 11 Federal Agencies with more detail on NSF and DOD *Differences between Grant Agencies and Contract Agencies *How to search for Topics Contact the LTTO to lean more on how Louisiana significantly supports our SBIR/STTR researchers and how to prepare and file an application for grants and contracts to help fund your idea.

Speaker(s): Hutch McClendon: Mr. McClendon is a member of the Louisiana Technology Transfer Office (LTTO) and the Louisiana Small Business Development Center specializing in technology and the SBIR/STTR programs state wide. He brings over twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur. He primarily works in the areas of strategic business planning, technology commercialization, and financial analysis and modeling. His previous two companies were software as service providers in the Petro-Chemical and Telecom Industries. Before joining the SBDC at LSU Mr. McClendon was President and Chief Executive Officer of Precision Global Alert, “PG Alert” a patented software solution to geo-target all public alerts using a one-way broadcast. For over ten years he worked in Washington DC to build support from the FCC, FEMA, NWS, public safety and Congress to geo-fence all public alerts, so alerts are targeted to only those people the alert is relevant. He served as a member of the National Advisory Council (NAC) Federal Integrated Pu

Co-Sponsor(s): University of Louisiana at Lafayette Opportunity Machine


Fee: No Cost

Phone: 225-202-2908

Location

Opportunity Machine
314 Jefferson Street Lafayette, LA 70501