A Note from the DOE SBIR Program Manager
We have selected Foresight Science & Technology, Inc. to provide our SBIR awardees with a comprehensive set of technology and commercialization assistance tools and training aids.  Choosing to participate in DOE's Technical Assistance Program (TAP) via Foresight not only provides our SBIR awardees with the full-version of Foresight's commercialization resources as listed below, but it also provides a secure venue for collaboration and networking amongst like-minded entrepreneurs and industries and markets seeking commercializable technologies.

As an SBIR recipient, you will be granted full access to the tools and training opportunities listed below, such as T2+2™: Technology Transfer Tools and Training, which includes the Commercialization 101™ e-courses as well as market information collected from over 23 years of Foresight S&T research.

We believe that the Foresight S&T developed tools, primers and other extensive technical assistance available to you via the DOE CAP Web site does make a difference in successful small business commercialization efforts.

Please select this link to register with the Foresight Science & Technology’s Department of Energy SBIR Technical Assistance Program (TAP)

SBIR Commercialization Support and Available Services: 

Go/NoGo™ Assessment Documents

To win a Phase I your technology must be unique and useful. The Go/NoGo™ Assessment leads you through data that answers both the questions. This link provides a template, a Help File on how to do the assessment and analyze the data.  It also provides a sample report. 

Improving your SBIR Proposal

A tutorial which shows you how to use and build upon your Go/NoGo™ to write a better Phase I proposal. 

Marketing Fact Sheet

Use this template to prepare marketing material you can send to potential Phase III partners.  You can also use it to provide information to experts, end-users, and other stakeholders.  It can be attached to emails, mailed separately, or handed out at trade fairs and other marketing venues. 

Training

“What Every Researcher Needs to Know About Commercialization”, A basic primer for SBIR research. 

Commercialization 101™

Use this e-training course to learn more about commercializing new technologies. 

SBA's Phase I Proposal Preparation Handbook

Written by Foresight S&T under contract to the U. S. Small Business Administration shortly after the SBIR Program was enacted government-wide, this Handbook still provides a good primer on SBIR proposal preparation.  You can easily find many other useful training documents on SBIR proposal preparation via a simple web search. 

Market Overviews

Market information summaries for a number of industries. 

Technology Roadmaps

Roadmaps are developed by governments, industry associations, and other authoritative groups.  They provide consensus technology objectives needed to sustain for short-, mid- and long-term progress in specific applications.  Search this archive for roadmaps addressing a wide range of industrial sectors and applications and for the names of companies, government agencies.

Trailblazer™

The Trailblazer™ positions a technology at the prototype stage or beyond and develops a roadmap for market entry for a technology at the prototype stage or beyond. It identifies participants for concurrent engineering and opens a dialog with product line and business unit managers at potential commercialization partners and lead customers. 

Technology Niche Analysis™ (TNA™) Assessment Documents

The TNA™ collects the data you need to develop effective market entry strategies.  It also helps you find Phase III partners willing to write letters supporting your Phase II proposal. This link goes to a the template, the Help File for completing the assessment, and a sample TNA™.  We help you complete the assessment.  Use the Live Chat link to find out more. 

Commercialization Plan Assessment Documents

If you are seeking venture capital, use this assessment to prepare the data and analysis you need for your business plan.  Be aware that you will need to follow the business plan format requested by the firm to whom you are submitting the plan. If they do not have a specific format, you can use the completed assessment itself or plug this data and analysis into one of the many free business plan formats found on the web. 

Venture Capital Contacts

Venture contacts searchable by state and fields in which they invest. 

Regulations and Standards

A searchable list of standards. Search by promulgators or topics across a wide range of industries and technologies. 

Data Warehouse

A searchable collection of open source market research data collected by Foresight's staff. 

Pipeline Partners

Foresight's catalogue of companies and key individuals interested in licensing new technology in their expressed fields of interest. 

K2™ Basecamp

K2™ Know-How Knowledge Basecamp™ is a collaborative Wiki-format knowledge-sharing site. Know-how is the tricks of the trade.  If we do not capture it, it gets lost.  We are capturing ours and we are glad to share it with you.  If you do not see what you want, post it in the discussion group. That way everyone can toss their two cents in on what they would like to see too.