Description:
NIST owns inventions that require additional research and innovation to advance the technologies to a commercial product or service. The goal of this SBIR subtopic is for small businesses to advance NIST-owned inventions to the marketplace. The Technology Partnerships Office at NIST will provide the awardee with a royalty-free research license for the duration of the SBIR award. When the technology is ready for commercialization, a commercialization license will be negotiated with the awardee.
Applications may be submitted for the development of any NIST-owned invention that is covered by a pending U.S. patent application or by an issued patent. Available NIST-owned inventions can be found on the NISTTech website at http://tsapps.nist.gov/techtransfer/ and are identified as “available for licensing” under the heading “Status of Availability.” Some available technologies are described as only being available non-exclusively, meaning that other commercialization licenses may currently exist. More information about licensing NIST’s inventions is available at http://www.nist.gov/tpo/Licensing.cfm.
The technical portion of an application should include a technical description of the research that will be undertaken. Included in this technical portion of the application, the applicant should provide a brief description of a development plan to manufacture the commercial product or to develop a commercial service using the NIST-owned invention. The absence of this development plan will result in the application being less competitive.
Phase I expected results:
Develop a feasibility study that examines expectations of the research to produce a commercial product.
Phase II expected results:
Provide further R&D that leads to demonstrated practical application and advancement toward a commercial product.
NIST staff may be available for consultation and collaboration.
