Membership Benefits<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Membership Types<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6397,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/6397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n Regular Membership<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n NSF SBIR\/STTR Grantee Firms<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n Non-SBIR\/STTR Small Business<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n Special Membership<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/b> Any companies, government agencies and non-government organizations<\/span><\/td>\n Companies with active NSF SBIR\/STTR Phase II and Phase IIB awards<\/span><\/td>\n Companies with small business concern defined by the Small Business Association<\/span><\/td>\n Any companies, government agencies and non-government organizations who intent to observe the research agenda and operation mechanism of the center.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/b> Full<\/span><\/td>\n Full<\/span><\/td>\n Full<\/span><\/td>\n Affiliated<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/b> $50,000<\/span><\/td>\n $5,000 paid by the company with NSF providing the balance ($45,000)<\/span><\/td>\n $25,000<\/span><\/td>\n $5,000<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/b> One year<\/span><\/td>\n One year<\/span><\/td>\n One year<\/span><\/td>\n One year<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/b> Full access to intellectual property<\/span><\/td>\n Full access to intellectual property<\/span><\/td>\n Full access to intellectual property<\/span><\/td>\n Access to general research project information, not full intellectual property<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/b> 50 votes for determining project funding allocation, and 1 vote in determining center management issues<\/span><\/td>\n 50 votes for determining project funding allocation, and 1 vote in determining center management issues<\/span><\/td>\n 25 votes for determining project funding allocation, and 1 vote in determining center management issues<\/span><\/td>\n No voting Right<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"