SBIR GRANT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

12 weeks

self-paced

webinars

SBA

program partner

program

on-demand

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Overview

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is supporting a new program to help women and minority entrepreneurs compete for Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grants. Federal SBIR grants are almost the only grants available for small businesses, and while Mississippi businesses are generally underserved in receiving these grants, women and minority-owned businesses are particularly underserved.

For that reason, Innovate Mississippi announced a new program to connect Mississippi women and minority entrepreneurs to world-class researchers and to better prepare our state’s minority and women researchers to compete for these grants.

In conjunction with the MS-FAST Program, which provides assistance and funding to better prepare winning Mississippi SBIR applications, Innovate Mississippi and the University of Southern Mississippi’s Business & Innovation Assistant Center offered a weekly series of webinars and one-on-one office hours targeting women and minority SBIR candidates. Women and minority researchers are invited to participate, and women and minority companies that are interested in connecting with world-class researchers are also the target audience.

This program is supported by a grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and will focus on connecting researchers and business experts to the resources and information they need to successfully participate in the federal SBIR program.

This program has been completed and is now available on-demand.
Please visit our Mississippi SBIR/STTR Resources page for access.

WEBINAR SCHEDULE

Webinar participants are invited to seek guidance on specific challenges they are facing in their entrepreneurial pursuits.

Week 1: Introduction to SBIR
Week 2: Agency Differences – Contract/Grant Agencies
Week 3: Resource Partners
Week 4: Resource Partners 2
Week 5: Other or Concurrent Sources of Funding
Week 6: Commercialization and What That Means in an SBIR Proposal
Week 7: Deeper Look at Agency Differences and Systems
Week 8: Developing the SBIR Budget
Week 9: Developing the SBIR Budget 2
Week 10: Wrap-up & What’s Next

Learning Path

Lesson 1 - Know Your Audience

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