Membership & Benefits
Membership Benefits
- Increase company’s competitiveness through deliverable oriented collaboration with academia and agencies
- Access (and hire) students cultivated through collaborative research and development (R&D)
- Free access to R&D results worth 10-100 times by investing limited funding each year
Membership Types
Regular Membership | NSF SBIR/STTR Grantee Firms | Non-SBIR/STTR Small Business | Special Membership | |
Any companies, government agencies and non-government organizations | Companies with active NSF SBIR/STTR Phase II and Phase IIB awards | Companies with small business concern defined by the Small Business Association | Any companies, government agencies and non-government organizations who intent to observe the research agenda and operation mechanism of the center. | |
Full | Full | Full | Affiliated | |
$50,000 | $5,000 paid by the company with NSF providing the balance ($45,000) | $25,000 | $5,000 | |
One year | One year | One year | One year | |
Full access to intellectual property | Full access to intellectual property | Full access to intellectual property | Access to general research project information, not full intellectual property | |
50 votes for determining project funding allocation, and 1 vote in determining center management issues | 50 votes for determining project funding allocation, and 1 vote in determining center management issues | 25 votes for determining project funding allocation, and 1 vote in determining center management issues | No voting Right |