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LES SBIR Showcase: Home
About Licensing Executive Society (LES)
Background to SBIR ASSETs
Current listing of SBIR Awardees to be featured at LES
  Relevant Dates
  Interest Indicator:
  September 16, 2008:
To ensure your name is on the Booth Graphics, we need to know that you want to play by this date.
  Nutshell Submission:
  October 3, 2008:
Final date for approval of Nutshells and receipt of all related Showcase Material.
Nutshell Upload
  Event Participation
is NOT required
Interest Indicator:
We are interested in being considered for one of the available LES SBIR ASSETS Slots
We intend to provide a Nutshell submission and the other related materials
We are interested but are NOT able to participate this time around. Keep us informed of other similar opportunities
Your unique System Access Code will be emailed
Useful Nutshell content and layout: Examples
Available Payment Options
First-time Nutshell Applicable fee
$295.00
  • Payment not required to submit Interest Indicator
  • Fee of $295.00 will be required before the Nutshell upload
  • Fee refunded in full if your submissions are not accepted.
    • Nutshell renewal
    $250.00
    Those who have previously had a Nutshell that has been used on distributed CDs and are renewing or have allowed their Account to lapse may
  • EITHER submit a completely new Nutshell
  • OR rework the one we have on file. This renewal (versus first time) is at a reduced fee payable at the time of upload
    To request copy of previous piece
    • A Third Option
    Description of
    Advanced Individual Account
    The Advanced Individual account is a useful combination On- and Offline Services system with associated Redeemable Points and continuing Discounts enabling SBIR Awardees serious about achieving in-use condition of their technologies and capabilites to have
  • full online search access to the multi- element, comprehensive idi SBIR-STTR databases and
  • full use of the diversity of SBIR consulting, tech transfer and marketing efforts in which this firm engages year round.
         All elements of the Nutshell system - to include free updates annually - are integrated into that account along with various other useful collective and individual promotional and informational services.
    Well worth your consideration!



    • SBIR-STTR ASSETs is best understood as a sophisticated market-pull driven, technology transfer system structured to provide ready access by qualified large and mid-sized firms - designated Tech Seekers - to a wide range of SBIR-STTR Awardees
    identified as doing leading-edge work in their space and
    interested in developing various     external business connections and relationships.
         The SBIR-STTR ASSETs system is an Innovation Development Institute initiative grounded in the powerful and comprehesive SBIR-STTR databases developed by this long-time SBIR Advocate over these many years.
    Setting SBIR-STTR ASSETs in context:
    Across the entire range of market space and technology areas, interest among large and mid-sized firms in establishing working relationships with small firms in general - and with SBIR Awardees in particular - is an important and growing phenomenon.
         There is compelling evidence that mutually valuable relationships are being formed; quality deals are being done -- and all that is all to the good. The more these happen, in fact, the more the groundwork is laid and the track record developed that will facilitate more of these mutally very useful collaborations and alliances.
         However, it is also clear that the underlying     matching-need-to-talent process borders on the chaotic and, at best, is inherently inefficient.
         Far more useful collaborations could be happening that are not and, given the extent of wheel-spinning and blind alley navigation, the frustration level among all parties involved is fairly high - large(r) firms and SBIR Awardees alike. Almost all achieved partner-based activity to date has been one-at-a-time laced with a substantial element of pure serendipity. Did the Awardee happen to read the right announcement? Were they at the right stage of development? Were the parties in the right place at the right time? Were the right people having the discussion? Did all the planets properly align?

    Finding Qualified SBIR-STTR Awardees:
    As frustrating as it is to many of the SBIR Community striving to make the right connections, extensive discussion with those in the Tech Seeking role suggests there is just as much frustration on their part.
        Though banging-the-SBIR-drum thesemany years at events like the LES Annual Meeting is beginning to make a difference, many highly motivated     Technology Seekers are only vaguely aware (if at all) of who SBIR firms are and what they can do. Even those who are very interested and well acquainted with the SBIR program indicate that finding right individual SBIR Awardees with the requisite skill-sets they need can be a major challenge. The overwhelming percentage of awardees are smaller, often young and resource stretched, and almost always to some extent flying under-the-radar. In the white-noise and crackle environment of technology development, even a large SBIR player with important relevant capabilities may be overlooked as not much more than a blip on the screen. Keeping track particularly of those doing relevant leading-edge work - especially across institutional lines - may be seriously problematic.

    The SBIR-STTR ASSETs system is an important resource
    that is bringing some order to this chaos

    The concept of Technology Seeker
    Across all industry segments and technology arenas, an increasing percentage of large and mid-sized firms are instituting an important Technology Seeker function. Often with tie-in to senior management and with substantial departmental involvement, these persons are tasked explicitly to look outside the firm for available technologies, capabilities and skill-sets relevant to addressing current problems and anticipated future needs.
         Particularly important to SBIR-involved firms, is the fact that many of these     Technology Seekers have the authority and the resources to establish effective working relationships with those external sources. Relationships may range from the larger firm knowing various SBIR Awardees working in space that is interesting to being sub-contractor on an SBIR-funded project through contracted R&D; from cross-licensing to project teaming; from facilities sharing and periodic personnel interaction to full-blown collaboration; from investment to full acquisition
         In the past, these types of external collaborations have usually engaged the universities, non-profit R&Dfacilities, the federal labs and, on occasion, other large(r) corporation. With SBIR-involved firms increasingly understood as the largest single concentration of technical talent, firms which are activelt engaged in this important small business program are increasingly becoming a major focus of these Technology Seekers