Event Series:
SBIR/STTR 201: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Access ~$2M for your transformative project with strong commercial potential.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) SBIR/STTR programs focus on transforming scientific discovery into products and services with commercial potential and/or societal benefit. The NSF funds high-risk, high-payoff projects across the spectrum of science, technology, engineering, and manufacturing. Minnesota firms with a formal NSF project pitch invitation are entered into the SBIR/STTR Catalyst.
Download a searchable PDF of the full list of technology topic areas that also includes descriptions of the subtopics.
NSF broad technology topic areas include:
- Advanced Analytics
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Advanced Materials
- Artificial Intelligence
- Augmented and Virtual Reality
- Biological Technologies
- Biomedical Technologies
- Chemical Technologies
- Cloud and High-Performance Computing
- Cybersecurity and Authentication
- Digital Health
- Distributed Ledger
- Energy Technologies
- Environmental Technologies
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Instrumentation and Hardware Systems
- Internet of Things
- Learning and Cognition Technologies
- Medical Devices
- Mobility
- Nanotechnology
- Other Topics
- Pharmaceutical Technologies
- Photonics
- Power Management
- Quantum Information Technologies
- Robotics
- Semiconductors
- Space
- Wireless Technologies