SBA Funds 22 State SBIR Programs
The Small Business Administration (SBA) has selected 22 organizations to receive funding to support outreach and proposal assistance for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. The organizations will split $1 million for an average award of just over $45,000. The exact amount for each award was not provided.
Each recipient must match the federal award 50 cents on the dollar. Awardees
include:
- Alaska Small Business Development Center
- University of Delaware
- Washington (DC) Emerging Technologies Center
- Idaho Small Business Development Center
- Indiana University
- Iowa State University
- Kentucky Science and Technology Corp.
- Louisiana Dept. of Economic Development
- Eastern Maine Development Corp.
- University of Mississippi
- The Center for Emerging Technologies (MO)
- Montana Department of Commerce
- Univ. of North Dakota, Center for Innovation
- Board of Regents, Univ. of Nebraska at Lincoln
- Nevada Small Business Development Center
- University of Puerto Rico
- Rhode Island Economic Development Corp.
- Dakota State University (SD)
- South Carolina Small Business Dev. Center
- Vermont Dept. of Economic Development
- West Virginia Small Business Dev. Center
- University of Wyoming