Stacy Chin walks through what happens after you submit an SBIR grant to NIH or NSF. Reviewers will critique your research strategy, innovation, team, and problem. Rejections let you resubmit with major revisions, so don't skip the chance to try again.
So after you hit the submit button on your NIH or NSF SBIR, you have to wait a very long time until you realize whether or not you got that application awarded. And usually with that comes with a long list of reviewer critiques describing the strengths and weaknesses of your application. Reviewers can critique anything from your proposed research strategy, the innovation itself, the team, you as the PI, or even the significance of the problem you want to solve. Anything is fair game. Sometimes the reviewers' critiques can be a bit harsh, but you you don't want to take them personally because regardless of what they say, these critiques, good or bad, can actually help strengthen your R&D approach to be better aligned with your commercial goals. So in the unfortunate situation where your SBIR application was rejected, you do have a chance to resubmit your application after substantial revisions has been made. And you don't want to miss this chance.
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