SBIR/STTR 2024 Road Tour: Great Lakes heads to Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, July 15 – 19 For the Innovation Ecosystem: We are excited to share that America’s Seed Fund 2024 Road Tour: Great Lakes will stop in the below locations from July 15 – 19. We encourage you...
National Announcements
Join America’s Seed Fund in Washington, D.C. See the special discount code below.
From June 17 -18, America’s Seed Fund returns to the Gaylord National Harbor outside of Washington, D.C., for the Spring SBIR/STTR Innovation Conference. This two-day event provides a valuable opportunity to accelerate your innovation journey, so please register to join us. SBIR/STTR Spring Innovation Conference June 17-18, 2024 Gaylord National...
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence and Polypharmacology to Discover Pharmacotherapeutics for substance use disorders.
Researchers and entrepreneurs, check out this National Institutes of Health (NIH) Funding Opportunity: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence and Polypharmacology to Discover Pharmacotherapeutics for substance use disorders. This funding opportunity encourages proposals that use artificial intelligence, including machine learning, tools and polypharmacology to identify pharmacotherapeutics with lower toxicity and higher efficacy to...
NIH launches $2 million prize competition to spur innovation in fetal diagnostic and monitoring technologies
Challenge seeks point-of-care or home-based approaches to improve fetal health outcomes The National Institutes of Health will award up to $2 million in cash prizes to accelerate development of diagnostic and monitoring technologies that improve fetal health outcomes in low-resource settings. The Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Technology (RADx® Tech)...
New Horizon Europe open calls released
Below you may find a list of calls recently opened by the European Commission under Horizon Europe, the research and innovation program of the EU for the period 2021-2027, with a budget of €95.5 billion. Note that USA based researchers who wish to participate in Cluster 1 “Health” or to benefit from a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions...
TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo
For over 20 years the TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo has connected top applied research and early-stage innovations from universities, labs, and startups with industry end-users and prospectors. The 2023 TechConnect World Innovation event includes the annual SBIR/STTR Innovation Conference, AI TechConnect, and the TechConnect Technical Program – more...
Smart Cities Connect events
After a couple challenging years, Smart Cities Connect events remain the leading smart city IoT trade shows for the state and local (S&L) government leaders in North America. TechConnect organizes SCC programs with a “cities first” agenda including cities leaders in all aspects of the event programming. Check out the...
First Responder UAS Indoor Challenge (UAS 4.0)
Use your UAS expertise to support first responders’ indoor operations. UAS 4.0 will support the public safety community and its stakeholders to improve situational awareness and to save lives while operating in potentially dangerous indoor environments. Submission period: Phase 2 open until 10/08/22 02:59 AM CEST Challenge type: Technology demonstration and...
Deep Space Food Challenge
Help Feed the Next Generation of Space Explorers! Submission period: Phase 2 open until 12/17/22 01:00 AM CET Challenge type: Technology demonstration and hardwareScientific; ; Total cash prizes: $1,000,000 Apply now
xTechManufacture
Opportunity to pitch novel advanced manufacturing solutions to the DOD A forum for eligible U.S. based small businesses, sole proprietors and institutions, to engage with the DOD, earn prize money and participate in the 2022 Defense Manufacturing Conference. Submission period: Phase 1 open until 10/14/22 11:00 PM CEST Challenge types: Technology...