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Technology
Ohio SBIR Programs
As well as assisting manufacturing and
defense-dependent small businesses, the Ohio MTSBDC statewide network
fosters the commercial success of small technology-based companies by
assisting with:
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Creating Small Business Innovation Research
(SBIR) Proposals; |
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Locating Mentors; |
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Accessing Capital; and |
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Integrating Key Commercialization Elements. |
SBIR
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program was
created by the federal government 1982 to stimulate technological
innovation, use small business to meet federal R&D needs, encourage the
participation by disadvantaged and minority-owned businesses in
technological innovation, and increase private sector commercialization
derived from federal R&D.
Ohio established Team SBIR, a consortium of the
MTSBDCs, Ohio Department of Development’s SBIR Program staff, successful
SBIR companies, university representatives, SBIR service providers, and
other industrial partners to meet the commercialization assistance needs
of the state’s technology-based businesses. Emphasis is placed on
assisting emerging and under-served firms.
Team
SBIR will strengthen the technological
competitiveness of Ohio's small businesses
by:
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Developing a
comprehensive plan to better assist
client companies and
attract new clients from broader
geographic and technological
cross-sections of Ohio |
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Fully utilizing
statewide resources in Ohio's SBIR
program and MTSBDCs to better
coordinate and improve the approach
to providing SBIR commercialization
assistance to clients |
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Expanding
Ohio's SBIR outreach programs to
integrate key commercialization
elements |
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Establishing an
SBIR mentor network in which
businesses that have been successful
in the SBIR program to provide
business advice and counseling to
Ohio's high-technology small
businesses |
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Building a
comprehensive and effective
knowledge base that will provide
web-based storage, manipulation, and
retrieval capabilities that support
SBIR in Ohio |
For more information please contact your local MTSBDC.
The Ohio MTSBDC is a Technology Accredited Member of the Association of Small Business Development Centers. |
