Stacy Chin explains how to write a winning SBIR application. You need to show your innovation creates real societal or economic impact, not just sell the product. Align your proposal with the funding agency's mission and highlight the broader breakthroughs it could enable.
Beyond just selling a product or an idea, your goal in your SBIR application is to show that the innovation you propose to deliver will make a huge difference in people's lives, industries, or the U.S. economy. To do so, you want to highlight the societal impacts or potential breakthroughs that your project would enable if successful. And this is important to founders— and this is important to founders— to make sure that what they're proposing is aligned to the agency's missions and funding priorities.
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