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The UCLA Ventures SBIR/STTR Web Series features experts who will explain the process and educate the viewer on SBIR - Small Business Innovation Research and STTR - Small Business Tech Transfer funding.
MODULE 1 What SBIR/STTR Actually Funds - Orientation to the SBIR/STTR landscape, eligibility, proposal expectations, reviewer criteria, and agency self‑selection
MODULE 2 SBIR/STTR Strategy 101: Topic Selection, Budgets, and the Path to Product - How to articulate customer value, product strategy, beachhead markets, and translational bottlenecks.
MODULE 4 Commercialization Strategy: Tech-to-Market Positioning - Why the Tech-to-Market plan is so important for your Phase I application today and how to articulate IP and its value creation as the two key tenets of SBIR/STTR.
MODULE 5 Legal Issues + Company Formation - Entity formation, licensing strategy, equity expectations, and founder agreements + IP Issues that SBIR/STTR applicants should understand.
MODULE 6 Federal Funding Compliance — Export Controls, CUI & CFIUS
Federal Funding Compliance: Essential strategies for maintaining compliance across federal grants and agency requirements.
Export Controls & CUI: Navigating regulations on Controlled Unclassified Information and export control restrictions in technology commercialization.
CFIUS Considerations: Key foreign investment and governance implications for university spinouts and emerging startups.