Want to win more NIH SBIR grant money faster? Submit more than one grant application at a time and — if you do it right — it’s possible to double your grant awards in half the time. This is what I call the Double Up strategy, where instead of submitting one SBIR grant application per … Read more
Newcomers to NIH SBIR grants often wonder, “Do I have to disclose my company’s intellectual property in the research plan — and if I do, how can I do it safely?” NIH defines proprietary information as “patentable ideas, trade secrets, privileged or confidential commercial or financial information, disclosure of which may harm the applicant.” NIH … Read more
You can certainly apply for a SBIR Phase I grant without ever needing to know they are also called R43 grants. Nor do you need to know SBIR Phase IIs are also called R44s. But if you ever research SBIR grants in in NIH’s public database, the NIH RePORTER, for clues about what kind of … Read more
It’s bad enough for NIH to turn down your SBIR grant. But then you read the Summary Statement and discover yours wasn’t even discussed and scored for Final Impact/Priority — which means it was judged to be in the bottom half of the applications. What a missing final score means The final score for your … Read more
If you’re new to NIH SBIR grants, take a moment to consider whether they’re right for you. If they’re not, you’ll save yourself a lot of disappointment and wasted time by looking for money elsewhere. NIH SBIR grants and their STTR grant cousins are FREE MONEY. They aren’t loans to be paid back. They do … Read more