Funding-Small
Business Innovation Research Program Phase I Solicitation FY-2012 (SBIR); December 2, 2011
Agency
Name
National
Science Foundation
Synopsis
The Small Business
Innovation Research (SBIR) Program stimulates technological innovation in the
private sector by strengthening the role of small business concerns in meeting
Federal research and development needs, increasing the commercial application
of federally supported research results, and fostering and encouraging
participation by socially and economically disadvantaged and women-owned small
businesses.
The SBIR
program solicits proposals from the small business sector consistent with NSF's
mission. The program is governed by Public Law 112-17. A main purpose of the
legislation is to stimulate technological innovation and increase private
sector commercialization. The NSF SBIR program is therefore in a unique
position to meet both the goals of NSF and the purpose of the SBIR legislation
by transforming scientific discovery into both social and economic benefit, and
by emphasizing private sector commercialization. Accordingly, NSF has
formulated broad solicitation topics for SBIR that conform to the high-technology
investment sector's interests.
The four
broad topics are:
·
Biological and Chemical
Technologies (BC)
·
Electronics,
Information and Communication Technologies (EI)
For detailed
description of the four topics reference section V. Proposal Preparation and
Submission Instructions, A.10. Research Topic.
Eligibility
Information: Only
firms qualifying as a small business
concern are eligible to participate in the SBIR program. The primary
employment of the Principal Investigator (PI) must be with the small business
concern at the time of the award. A
PI must spend a minimum of one calendar month on an SBIR Phase I project and be
at least 51% employed by the small business at the time of the award.
Announcement
Number:
NSF 11-577
Due
Date: December
02, 2011
Link
to Full Announcement
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11577/nsf11577.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Contact
Information
·
Prakash Balan,
Biological and Chemical Technologies (BC), telephone: (703) 292-5341, email: pbalan@nsf.gov
·
Juan
E. Figueroa, Electronics, Information and Communication Technologies (EI),
telephone: (703) 292-7054, email: jfiguero@nsf.gov
·
Glenn
H. Larsen, Education Applications (EA), telephone: (703) 292-4607, email: glarsen@nsf.gov
·
Muralidharan S. Nair,
Electronics, Information and Communication Technologies (EI), telephone: (703)
292-7059, email: mnair@nsf.gov
·
Benaiah Schrag,
Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing (NM), telephone: (703)
292-8323, email: bschrag@nsf.gov
·
Ruth
M. Shuman, Biological and Chemical Technologies (BC), telephone: (703)
292-2160, email: rshuman@nsf.gov
·
Anthony
Walters, Biological and Chemical Technologies (BC), telephone: (703) 292-8772,
email: awalters@nsf.gov
·
Grace
J. Wang, Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing (NM), telephone:
(703) 292-2214, email: jiwang@nsf.gov