Is your company ready for SBIR? Do you have the right research team to be successful? Do you know how to search for SBIR/STTR opportunities? Learn all this and more from our 3-part workshop series hosted by the Office of Innovation and Commercialization (OIC) at the University of Hawaii.

Thinking of starting a business with your exciting technology idea? Are you a researcher looking to commercialize your idea? Or maybe your research may meet Federal Research and Development needs but you don’t know how to search for these opportunities?

Everyone with a business or a technology idea is welcome! Please sign up for our free online information session!

When:

Friday, August 7 12:00-1:30 pm

UH+ HTDC are leveraging their programs to build the next generation of SBIR Companies and STTR opportunities and accelerate technology and commercialization.

SBIR/STTR’s are a great opportunity to obtain funding, up to $250,000, to kickstart your business! The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs are federally funded, award based grant programs to encourage, enable and fund small business to perform high risk or novel R&D, in the spirit of commercializing their inventions.

Featuring guest speaker Denise McKenzie

Denise is currently an adjunct professor with the National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps program, training university teams from across the US on translating their research into viable startups, and helping them on the road to SBIR/STTR opportunities. She recently worked at the University of Southern California (USC) where she helped the engineering faculty commercialize early-stage discoveries and move them from the lab to the marketplace. Denise also has more than fifteen years of experience as a patent litigator. Her law practice focused on helping tech companies protect their ideas and inventions from theft by competitors. In addition, she worked as an electrical engineer at a major aerospace company where she developed mathematical models of missile navigation systems. She earned a JD and MS in electrical engineering from USC, and a BS in mathematics-systems science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her SBIR Info Sessions will have an NSF focus.