1. SBIR STTR University of Central Florida School of EECS

2. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Established by Congress in 1982 to provide increased opportunities for small businesses to participate in R&D, to increase employment and to improve U.S. competitiveness The program's specific objectives are stimulate U.S. technological innovation use small businesses to meet federal R&D needs increase private-sector commercialization of innovations derived from federal R&D foster and encourage participation by socially disadvantaged businesses Legislation enacted in 2000 increased its emphasis on pursuing commercial applications of SBIR project results Florida was #13 in SBIR dollars in 2004.

3. Funding Criteria Must be High-payback Innovations involving High Risk Must have High Commercial Potential Demonstrate Strategic Partnerships with Research Collaborators, Customers and Equity Investors The NSF SBIR/STTR program does NOT fund: Evolutionary optimization of existing products and processes, modifications to broaden the scope of an existing product, process or application Analytical or “market” studies of technologies Broad-scale “beta” testing of products or processes with no innovative scientific component

4. Three Phases Phase I (up to $100K for 6 months) Technical merit – Concept design Minimum of 66% to business Phase II (up to $750K for 2 years) Proof of Concept / Product Prototype Minimum of 50% to business Phase III (Investors) Commercialization

5. Company Characteristics American-owned (at least 51%) Independently operated For-profit Principal researcher employed by business Company size limited to 500 employees

6. Participants Department of Agriculture Department of Commerce Department of Defense Department of Education Department of Energy Department of Health and Human Services Department of Homeland Security Department of Transportation Environmental Protection Agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Science Foundation

7. Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Smaller pot of money than SBIRs Contracts to small business for cooperative research and development with a non-profit research institution (RI), such as a university Facilitates the transfer of technology developed by an RI through the entrepreneurship of a small business. Small business and RI sign an agreement on how intellectual property will be shared Florida was #8 in STTR dollars in 2004

8. Three Phases Phase I (up to $150K for 12 months) Technical merit – Concept design Minimum of 40% to business; 30% to RI Phase II (up to $750K for 2 years) Proof of Concept / Product Prototype Minimum of 50% to business Phase III (Investors) Commercialization

9. Company Characteristics American-owned (at least 51%) Independently operated For-profit Principal researcher need not be employed by business Company size limited to 500 employees

10. Participants Department of Defense Department of Energy Department of Health and Human Services National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Science Foundation

11. More Incentives from NSF REU GRS Bridge funding (1:2)

12. Who Submits and Who is PI? Grant always comes from small business On SBIR, PI is from business On STTR, PI can be from RI Except NSF where PI is always from business

13. Examples in EECS Issa Batarseh: Seven Phase I, and Four Phase II NASA, NSF, Air Force, Navy, Army UCF Spin-Off: APECOR (Research Park) Charlie Hughes: Three Phase I in last year Education (SBIR), NSF (STTR), Air Force (STTR) Two Phase II proposals we are waiting on UCF Spin-off: Simiosys (research Park) Company moved to area: VRMC (downtown and Lake Nona) John Shen: Three Phase I, one Phase II NASA, Navy, Air Force UCF Spin-Off: APECOR and Electrodynamics (Research Park) Annie Wu (NSF STTR Phase I); Mike Moshell (ARI Phase I) Joe LaViola (NSF Phase I: Brown Spinoff in Somerville MA) Don Malocha, Ron DeMara, etc.

14. APECOR SBIR (1-6) / STTR (7) 1. NASA-KSC – Power Factor Correction –Phase I and II 2. NSF – High Frequency DC-DC – Phase I 3. US Air Force: Parallel Connected Converters with Innovative Control Phases I and II 4. US Army: Variable-Voltage, bi-directional dc-dc Converter Phases I and II 5. US Navy: Compact High-Power DC-DC Converter for Navy Non-Explosive Acoustic Sources Phase I 6. NASA: Integrated Three-Port Converters for Compact and Efficient Power Management Phases I and II 7. US Navy: Power Generating Backpack Phase I STTR

15. MCL SBIR/STTR 2006-2007 1. Department of Education, SBIR Phase I: Simiosys LLC 2. National Science Foundation, STTR Phase I : VRMC 3. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, STTR Phase I : VRMC

16. Issa Batarseh Professor & Director School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Director, Florida Power Electronics Center E-Mail: batarseh@mail.ucf.edu Home Page: http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/people/faculty.php?faculty=batarseh Florida Power Electronics Center : http://floridapec.engr.ucf.edu Contact information

17. Charles E. Hughes Professor & Associate Director School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Director, Media Convergence Lab E-Mail: ceh@cs.ucf.edu Home Page: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~ceh/ Media Convergence Lab: http://mcl.ucf.edu Contact information