Accelerate Your Innovation to Commercialization with an SBIR Award

February 1, 2022

Bahareh Barati
Bahareh Barati received an SBIR award for the innovation she created for stroke research at UAF. Photo by Amanda Byrd.

Are you an aspiring entrepreneur, innovator, and small business in Alaska looking for non-dilutive funding and grants? Alaska Center ICE’s Small Business Innovation Research Accelerator program can help you!

This program, part of the Mesas to Mountains partnership, is a unique opportunity to tap into millions of dollars of federal funding opportunities and move innovative ideas to commercial products through three phases of research and development activities:

Phase I – establish feasibility of idea and technical merit ($50k - $260k; 3-12 months)

Phase II – develop a market-ready prototype ($300k - $1.5m; 18-27 months)

Phase III – get to the commercial market

Our program is specifically designed to support Alaskan innovators and rural communities. The program is for aspiring entrepreneurs, innovators and small businesses in Alaska looking for non-dilutive funding and grants.

The SBIR accelerator is a 10-week, cohort-based program that focuses on:

  1. Proposal development
  2. Award management
  3. Commercialization
  4. Intellectual property protections and licensing technology from Research Institutions
  5. Mentorship
  6. SBIR/STTR Networking Summit with federal agencies and program managers.

Our first cohort starts in March 2022. The deadline to apply to the first cohort is Friday, Feb. 25. Submit an application here: mesas-to-mountains/.

For more information, please email Evelyn Jacome at edjacome@alaska.edu.