The Nebraska Business Development Center’s Innovation and Technology program is a statewide, nonprofit program committed to advancement of science, technology, and innovative economic development.
The Innovation and Technology team offers services across Nebraska funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). The program team provides professional, confidential one-on-one advising to small business owners and startups to compete and win federal research funding for early-stage product research and development (R&D). The goal of this work is to commercialize the technology into new products or services.
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Services
- SBIR and STTR program assistance
- NBDC provides technical support to apply for or administer a grant from the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business and Technology Transfer programs.
- Individual assistance
- Certified consultants offer quality and confidential consulting services at no cost. Service areas in the Innovation and Technology program include assessment of business models, discussion of patent options, support for federal registration, project management for grant writing, and support for application assistance.
- Business training
- Workshops provided include: SBIR informational sessions, intellectual property and patents, SBIR/STTR proposal preparation, and taking ideas from ideation to creation.
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