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NOTE: To protect the proprietary nature of many Tech Seeker Needs listed here, to view Technology Opportunity Projects (TOPs) interested SBIR Awardees MUST apply for a Systems Access Code.
This is a No-Cost transaction.
    Active site participation - questions, White Paper submissions etc is encouraged. However, to be effective, Forum participation is needed. That does require Event Registration.
Space is limited and registration will close when facaility capacity is reached - approximately 120-125 people.
Previously-Involved ASSETs Forum Tech Seekers
Air Products
Boeing Company
Cabot Corporation
Energizer
Foster-Miller, Inc: a QinetiQ Company
General Dynamics Electric Boat
General Electric Global Research
Hewlett-Packard Company
INCAPS
Johnson & Johnson
Merck Research Laboratories
Momentive Performance Materials
Nokia
Northrop Grumman Corporation
NOVA Chemicals Corp
Novartis Consumer Health Division
P&G Pharmaceuticals
Pfizer Inc
Procter & Gamble Company
Rockwell Collins
Schick Wilkinson Sword
Sealed Air Corporation
Siemens Technology-to-Business Center
Spirit AeroSystems Inc
SPX Corporation
Sherwin Williams Company
         "... if tech transfer, IP transactions, strategic alliances and collaborations are critical components of YOUR job description and/or business development strategy, the ASSETs Forum format of
    structured pre-event interaction
    in-depth groundwork to achieve targeted matching
    extensive at-event interaction and focused content
    and very useful post-event support
    makes this a powerful, effective must-use resource"
A powerful Needs-driven, Market-Pull system
This tightly structured, carefully-designed two-and-a-half-day annual convening of those in several large and mid-sized firms with Tech Scouting responsibility 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 many of those involved.

    The track record of the now many actual working relationships to have come out of these efforts is impressive. These successes suggest that if those involved properly engage the proven system, this project-focused and skills matching approach works for small firm and large firm alike.

    • Components:
    SBIR ASSET is a system - of which the Annual Forum per se is only one part. The whole is an integrated, year-round approach to enabling and supporting effective working relationships of varying types between large and small firm - SBIR ASSETs Components.
        These working relationships, and the deals which regularly come out of the Forum every Spring, are often the outcome of what may have been a several month process of drill-down prep-work - as much by the Tech Seeker as by the SBIR Awardee.
        In short, the SBIR ASSETs process - and the Forum in particular - is NOT a short-term jab approach; NOR is it about simply showcasing the achievements of SBIR Awardee in something of a vacuum - the technology-push approach that primarily (and largely not very successfully) has defined SBIR agency sponsored Phase III efforts to date.
       Instead, the database-supported, needs-driven ASSET System is about efficiently and effectively connecting serious Technology Seekers with actual decision-making responsibility 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 drives the ASSETs Forum process
    is what Tech Seekers involved have specifically
    indicated are their collaborative interests.
    Tire-kickers are not welcome
    Powerful databases
    The critical element underpinnning this effort and the demonstrated 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/key-phrase -searches 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.
        Those SBIR Awardees yielded by this process of matching capabilities to expressed Tceh Seeker need are those who will be notified of the opportunity. They are the ones invited to become engaged pre-event to find out more and to determine from that process whether to take the time to attend the event.
    Note: this SBIR-STTR-focused Market-Pull, Tech-Transfer event explicitly 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 been subjected to rigorous evaluative procedure.

    Organizers reserve the right
    to refuse registration.

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