SBIR/STTR Grants
The federal government’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs are some of the best technology development dollars a team can obtain. Our team has accumulated decades of experience supporting start-ups through this process, and our host university can provide a wealth of public and private sector subject matter expertise. Innovators can receive dedicated support to pursue SBIR or STTR grants; contact wcet@uw.edu to learn more.
Research Grants
Testbeds management, staff, and network partners are experienced grant writers and reviewers. Researchers with aligned technical goals can receive dedicated support for research grants from federal and state agencies. Contact wcet@uw.edu to learn more.
Click here to view current cleantech-focused grant opportunities that go beyond the federal SBIR and STTR programs.
Grant Proposal Language
Innovators and researchers preparing proposals that utilize the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds are welcome to draw from the following text:
The Washington Clean Energy Testbeds is a 15,000 square-foot facility designed to assist in the scale-up, prototyping, testing, and validating of clean energy innovations. The Testbeds are used by faculty, students, and researchers at the state’s leading companies and research institutions, as well as innovative clean energy startup companies from around the United States.
The expert staff and specially-designed facility allow researchers to test materials and develop functional devices at scales from that of a lab bench to a commercial solar panel or battery stack. Furthermore, hardware and software operating systems can be tested for deployment at the utility scale. The lab-to-industry line of sight is supported by the three integrated disciplines of the Testbeds: research and training, scale-up and characterization, and systems integration.
The purpose of the Testbeds is to reduce the capital and risk associated with research and technology transfer from the lab to industry, enabling researcher to maximize the value of grant awards and investment dollars as their discoveries build toward new commercial opportunities. The Testbeds house a community of researchers from academia and industry in close proximity to other cutting-edge research facilities at the University of Washington. This allows individual teams of investigators to pursue the next advancement while building partnerships with other inventors and institutions, including external partners like the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and other leading universities.