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Serious SBIR Awardees
To support the business development aspects of your effective SBIR-STTR involvement ... you may wish to consider the comprehensive
Advanced Individual Account
By careful design, this Account provides valuable, year-round available tools and resources to support and give exposure to the firm's technology transfer efforts.
    Importantly, the Advanced Individual Account includes full Nutshell status and the 995 relate Retainer Points can be used to 'pay for'
  • Poster Sessions
  • Auction listing fees
  • Tech Transfer psotings etc
    • Facts about the ASSET system:
    Special Invited Wednesday Only Registration 
    All issued Access Codes
    are Event Specific.
       NOTE: Previously issued Codes will not be recognized. Questions?
    Why an Access Code? ...answer
    Confirmed Participants to Fifth SBIR ASSETs Forum 85 topics
    Those marked with icon are not yet completed the process of the Topic preparation and upload.
    Chemtura Corporation
    Church & Dwight Co Inc
    The Dow Chemical Company
    DuPont
    FMC Corporation
    Fraunhofer CSE
    National Starch Food Innovation
    NIST: SBIR
    Praxair Inc
    Novartis Consumer Products
    The Sherwin Williams Company
    W. R. Grace & Co.
    Event overview:
    At this point, the process of recruitment of Tech Seekers and their associated Technology Opportunity Projects (TOPs) is all but completed. To give a sense of whom we recruit and what sort of TOPS they post, for informational purposes only posted here are    
  • the full inventory of the Fourth Annual TOPs listings    
  • and a list of all previous Tech Seekers

    Please be reminded that the Forum is a once-a-year offering which enables the involvement of firms - large and small which may previously have been ASSET-involved. The full, and very effective needs-driven, market-pull matching system is ongoing year-round to include

  • a three times annually Technology Solicitation process - effectively a private-sector version of an SBIR solicitation with very much equivalent dollars but with topic driven by Tech Seekers
  • various custom versions of the Forum usually conducted on teh site of the Tech Seeker and involving only SBIR awardees with skills specific to their particular needs.

    • Previous Forum TOPs 142 topics
    Previously-Involved ASSETs Forum Tech Seekers
    Air Products
    Boeing Company
    Cabot Corporation
    Church & Dwight Co Inc
    Energizer
    Foster-Miller, Inc: a QinetiQ Company
    General Dynamics Electric Boat
    General Electric Global Research
    GlaxoSmithKline
    Hewlett-Packard Company
    INCAPS
    Johnson & Johnson
    Merck Research Laboratories
    Momentive Performance Materials
    Nokia
    Northrop Grumman Corporation
    NOVA Chemicals Corp
    Novartis Consumer Health Division
    Novus International Inc
    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
    The Coca Cola Company
    Weyerhaeuser Inc
         "... if involvement in tech transfer and/or IP transactions, set-up of 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 identify/achieve targeted matching
      extensive & various at-event interaction & focused content
      very useful, focused content sessions, involving leading experts in their fields
      and effective post-event support
    makes this a powerful, effective, must-be-involved resource"
    A Needs-Driven, Market-Pull system
    This tightly structured, carefully-designed 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 now almost 100 actual working relationships to have come out of these efforts is varied and impressive. Out of the Fourth Annual ASSETs Forum alone (March 2009), business transactions and deals valued at over $14M are already reported, with several more in the works. This project-focused and skills-matching approach really works .... for small firms and large(r) company alike.

    • Components:
    SBIR ASSET is a system - of which the 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, 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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