Date: February 21, 2002

Presenter: Steve Nugen

Affiliation: Nugensoft.com

The speaker for this meeting was Steve Nugen of NugenSoft. Mr. Nugen discussed his experiences applying for government grants and provided an overview of two popular programs. The SBIR Program (Small Business Innovation Research) provides up to $850,000 in early-stage R&D funding directly to small technology companies (or individual entrepreneurs who form a company). The STTR Program (Small Business Technology Transfer) provides up to $600,000 in early-stage R&D funding directly to small companies working cooperatively with researchers at universities and other research institutions. There is additional information at the SBIR website

With permission of the the presenter, the SBIR presentation has been provided for the ITC as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. To read this file, you will need to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.