Stacy Chin describes the NSF Project Pitch, a preliminary screening tool for SBIR and STTR grants that launched in 2019. It evaluates technical and commercial potential upfront to streamline review of the overwhelming volume of applications the agency receives.
The Project Pitch application is the cornerstone of NSF's SBIR and STTR processes. It serves as the preliminary screening tool to help the agency evaluate the initial technical and commercial potential of a proposed innovation to determine whether or not that is a good fit for the agency. The NSF Project Pitch application was launched in 2019 as a way to streamline the review process because they were getting way too many applications.
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