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So-Far Confirmed FY08 Technology Seekers:
  • General Electric Global Research
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Merck Research Labs
  • Novartis Consumer Health Division
  • Sealed Air Corporation
  • Siemens Technology-to -Business Center
  • Spirit AeroSystems
  • The Sherwin Williams Company
  • A premier specialty materials company, providing high-technology materials solutions to global markets.
    • Tech Seekers: Observers and/or Speakers
  • BD Bioventure Center
  • Biogen-Idec
  • SPX Corporation
    • Several more well-known larger and mid-sized firms are
  • working on their ASSET Technology Opportunity Projects (TOPs) and
  • determining the specifics of how they will handle their Event involvement.
    15-18 firms are expected to assume full-blown Tech Seeker status with several more participating as Observers. The effort is to keep awardees informed by email but regular site check-in recommended since there will inevitably be delays between when we have the info and broadcast that data.
    • Previously involved Technology Seeker firms:
  • Air Products
  • Boeing Company
  • Cabot Corporation
  • Energizer-Schick-       Wilkinson Sword
  • Foster-Miller, Inc: a QinetiQ       Company
  • General Dynamics Electric       Boat
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • INCAPS
  • Nokia
  • Northrop Grumman       Corporation
  • NOVA Chemicals Corp
  • Novozymes
  • P&G Pharmaceuticals
  • Pfizer
  • Pitney-Bowes
  • Procter & Gamble Company
  • Rockwell Collins
  • Sealed Air Corporation
  • Siemens Venture Capital, Inc
  • SR One
    • .. if Tech Transfer and/or Collaborations are among YOUR business objectives, plan to be in Boston
    March 19-21, 2008
    NOTE: To protect proprietary nature of Tech Seeker listings, to view Technology Opportunity Projects (TOPs), interested SBIR Awardees MUST apply for a Systems Access Code. This is a No-Cost transaction.
    Tech Seekers & Available Topics; current tally (9/8/2010)
  • THIRTEEN confirmed Tech Seeker participants
  • Three-four more in discussion
  • NINETY THREE active Topics
  • Other topics in the pipeline
    • Post Event : Two Cents session
    SBIR Reauthorization issues
    (Friday Mar 21,2:30-5PM)
    Special Issue
    Plenary Sessions
  • Considering current NIH SBIR Phase III initiatives: a working discussion Joanne Goodnight, SBIR NIH Coordinator
  • Graves or Growth: The Science Driven Innovation Imperative Matthew Nordan, President, Lux Research
  • From Concept to Effective War-Fighter Use: the special conditions of transitioning SBIR DOD technologies Carol Van Wyk former DOD CPP Director
    Jere Glover, Executive Director, SBTC
  • Cross-institutional Teaming to address NASA Needs (working title). NASA official
  • SBIR Commercialization: Methods, Tactics, and Practical Considerations for Commercializing Phase III Innovations. David P. Metzger Arnold & Porter
  • Critical issues in IP and SBIR Data Rights protection in Strategic AlliancesFeatured SBIR Awardee and Expert Panel, Business Clinic
  • How does this work?
  • What do you mean by a Tech Seeker?
  • Can an SBIR Awardee be a Tech Seeker?
  • What makes SBIR ASSETs different from the various Phase III Commercialization Events offered by the agencies?
  • What types of relationships can exist between SBIR-involved firm and other companies?
  • Market-Pull versus Technology Push.
  • What is proprietary about the idi SBIR-STTR databases?
  • Do we get to choose when our presentation would be scheduled?
  • ...realizing SBIR-STTR value
    • What did they say?
    "I have to say, I have rarely had to work so hard at an event. Well worth it ... but next time I am bringing someone else with me. This program is so tightly run that there is almost too much for one person to take it all in."
    -- Major corporation VP of Business Development
    SBIR ASSETs Forum: a powerful Needs-driven, Market-Pull system
    This two-and-a-half-day convening of several large and mid-sized firms and appropriately qualified SBIR-STTR Awardees is always

    a useful opportunity for close, opportunity-focused interaction with potential business partners
    a structured setting in which to lay the groundwork for real working relationships and
    a powerful learning experience for those involved.

       HOWEVER, it is vital to understand that the event per se is actually the outcome of what may be a several month process of drill-down prep-work - as much by the Tech Seeker as by the SBIR Awardee. The SBIR ASSETs process is NOT about showcasing the SBIR Awardee in something of a vacuum. It is about efficiently and effectively connecting serious Technology Seekers to those specific SBIR-involved firms which have

    --EITHER already developed, OR have made major progress towards, what the particular Tech Seekers is actually looking for
    --AND/OR have the     demonstrated skill-sets which suggest that they could be engaged to work effectively to that end.

    What participating Tech Seeker have said
    they are in the external marketplace to buy
    specifically drives SBIR ASSETs process.

    Powerful databases
    Underpinnning this effort and the capacity to make truly effective matches of need to capability are powerful, proprietary SBIR relational databases developed and maintained by Event organizers - long-time, leading SBIR advocates in the private sector.
        Accurate and complete to the most recently announced SBIR-STTR awards, this comprehensive, cross-agency system supports offline, rapid keyword-search through all project Abstracts, Issued Patents, detailed Company Profiles, in-depth Capability Statements, Business and Financial Condition (to include VC, IPO, M&A), a full range of classification systems and analyses, Personnel Bios, Working papers, news releases and featured articles etc.
    Getting the job done: about a lot more than making introductions
    To support this focused Tech Transfer endeavor over the longer term, woven into the fabric of the event is a full program of sophisticated, thought- provoking working sessions.
        Engaging skilled technology development practitioners from industry and the private sector, these learning opportunities will include

    active case studies
    expert presentation
    Structured interviews
    Talk Show format discussions
    in-depth analyses of a range of related issues.
    Note: this SBIR-STTR-focused Market-Pull, Tech-Transfer event is NOT open- access.
  • Invitation is required at all levels including observer status
  • SBIR awardees selected for presentation of Tech Seeker response, technology opportunity and/or capabilities overview posting will have made application and subjected to rigorous evaluative procedure.
    Organizers reserve the right
    to refuse registration.
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