FOR AGTECH ENTREPRENEURS WITH INNOVATIONS that serve agricultural sectors and support rural development, NBDC has developed a series of events to help participants prepare for pitch events and conferences as well as funding opportunities.
Opportunities in Agricultural Innovation
Agricultural Innovators Meetup
Customer Discovery
Nick Brozović, PhD. instructs viewers on how to identify customer segments and refine their innovative ideas to respond to those customers' needs. Brozović serves as the director of policy at the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska and is a professor in agricultural economics at UNL.
Embedded videos Included in this training session can be found at here. A full list of resources is shown at the 50:11 minute mark
Webinar: August 31
SBIR 101
Learn SBIR/STTR program basics and how to apply. This event will help attendees identify appropriate topic areas and discuss the commercialization process, preparing participants for the SBIR Week in Omaha on October 19.
Application Deadline: October 1
USDA SBIR Application deadline
Application details are available at this link.
October 19
SBIR Week
SBIR Week connects entrepreneurs working on advanced technologies to the country’s largest source of early stage funding – federal SBIR/STTR programs. Also known as America’s Seed Fund, these programs provide more than $3.7 billion to small businesses each year in technology commercialization.