Insights
Guides and analysis on NSF SBIR, NIH SBIR and the wider US federal funding landscape. Written by the people who write the applications.
NSF SBIR is accepting new Project Pitches and federal grant systems are returning to regular cycles. Here is what the reopening means for technology and life-science companies, and how to prepare.
SBIR data rights, Bayh-Dole obligations and what the government can and cannot do with your technology, explained for US startup founders and investors.
Direct costs, fringe, indirect rates, subawards and consultants. What a credible Phase I budget looks like and the line items that trigger questions.
NSF declines most Project Pitches on intellectual merit, not writing quality. Here is how NSF defines innovation and technical risk, and how to test your project against it.
The Specific Aims page shapes how every reviewer reads the rest of your NIH SBIR application. A paragraph-by-paragraph structure that works.
Before you can submit a full NSF SBIR proposal you must pass the Project Pitch. What each section needs, the limits to respect, and the mistakes that get pitches declined.
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