Foresight Science & Technology exhibited at the SBIR/STTR Spring Innovation Conference co-located with the 2023 TechConnect World Innovation Conference in Washington, DC on June 19-20, 2023.
Couldn’t make it to the event but are preparing an SBIR proposal that allows for SBIR/STTR Technical and Business Assistance (TABA) funds? Contact Us for a letter of commitment/quote to include in your proposal.
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Foresight Science & Technology is excited to announce the development of a new product development toolkit on behalf of WIPO. With the collaboration of Dr. Phyllis Leah Speser, Dr. Arendt Oak Speser and Lambda Films Ltd, we were able to produce educational content that walks researchers, inventors, and entrepreneurs as well as Technology and Innovation Support Centers (TISCs) through the process of new product development in the public domain.
Entrepreneurs, inventors, and researchers can get guidance at every step of the way, from kicking things off with a project charter all the way to figuring out the net present value of their technology/invention and everything in-between. The content of this toolkit has been thoughtfully crafted and piloted in various markets in order to finetune the material and deliver a comprehensive toolkit for WIPO to share.
See what we have been working on and enjoy learning about new product development on the WIPO TISC page.
Foresight Science & Technology exhibited at the 2023 AUTM Annual Meeting February 19-21, 2023 in Austin, TX. If you didn’t get to stop by our booth to learn more about our market assessment reports, including the original Go/NoGo® Report, you can always contact us!
Posted November 14, 2022 By: Reda El Alami
On Oct. 27, 2022 – Foresight attended the PDMA webinar ‘Scatterbrains: Teams find innovation by thinking differently’ by Richard Perez. The webinar consisted of examples and graphs of the make-up of teams at fortune 100 companies and how well they work together. Mr. Perez unpacked and analyzed each member of these teams and categorized them based on defined characteristics and then went on to explain how these categories interact. This information shed some light on individual traits that we don’t always think of when working in team settings. The presentation went on about how to work with members from these categories in order to create synergy and maintain a thriving team model. Overall the webinar was enlightening and interactive as it allowed for members of the webinar to participate in polls and understand where we land within certain team models.
Foresight Science & Technology was an exhibitor at the SBIR/STTR Fall Innovation Conference co-located with the 2022 Defense TechConnect Conference in Washington, DC on September 27-28, 2022.
We hope you had a chance to learn about our SBIR/STTR Technical and Business Assistance (TABA) services! If you didn’t make it, check out information here or contact Alyssa Belleville at alyssa@foresightst.com.
Foresight sponsored the ASTP Annual Conference this year in Lisbon, Portugal May 18-20, 2022. If you are involved in technology transfer in Europe, this is the event to attend! If you missed us there, contact us to learn about our Market Assessments, technology marketing sheets, and how we can help your faculty with their ERC PoC grant proposals, etc.
Foresight’s founder, Dr. Phyllis Leah Speser was a speaker at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Global TISC Conference held virtually on November 29 to December 1, 2021 in cooperation with the National Intellectual Property Administration of the People’s Republic of China (CNIPA). The conference explored the role of Technology and Innovation Support Centers (TISCs) in facilitating technology transfer and contributing to technology-based solutions to social and economic issues faced by communities worldwide.
You can find copies of the presentations and recordings of the event here.
Foresight participated in SBA’s first Innovation Ecosystem Summit which took place virtually November 15 – 17, 2021. This summit was curated to connect entrepreneurial support organizations (ESOs) from around the country to leverage one another and build inclusive innovation ecosystems. Foresight’s Director of Consulting, Dr. Konstantin Izvolsky, was a panelist on the session entitled “What’s TABA & How Can It Help Underrepresented Entrepreneurs” on November 16th at 2pmET.
If you missed it, you can learn more about TABA here.
Foresight Science & Technology attended the SBIR/STTR Fall Innovation Conference co-located with the 2021 TechConnect World Innovation Conference in Washington, DC from October 18-20, 2021.
If you were not able to attend the event, you can learn more about our SBIR/STTR Technical and Business Assistance (TABA) commercialization services at: https://foresightst.com/sbir-taba/ or contact Alyssa Belleville at alyssa@foresightst.com.
We hope to speak with you soon!
Foresight Science & Technology, Inc. (Foresight) has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant as part of a cooperative research development agreement (CRADA) with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, to conduct research and development (R&D) on an environmentally neutral product for control of red imported fire ants (RIFA). This project intends to establish a proof of concept for the use of taste masking agents that are already used in human and animal medications to mask the negative taste of an effective active ingredient for use in a pest ant bait station. The commercial impacts of the proposed activity will be to provide consumers and gardeners an effective, affordable, and environmentally responsible treatment for controlling RIFA as an alternative to existing chemical pesticides. The addressable market for the product is households and professional pest control service companies in the 14 infested states that currently use chemical pesticides to control RIFA, and additional households and service companies that would use bait stations if an organic solution was available.
“NSF is proud to support the technology of the future by thinking beyond incremental developments and funding the most creative, impactful ideas across all markets and areas of science and engineering,”
“Foresight appreciates the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. As a long-time provider of commercialization services to SBIR funded companies, we recognize the importance of small businesses and their entrepreneurial efforts to bring innovative and important products and services to the marketplace. With funding from the NSF SBIR, Foresight is excited to be one of those small businesses.”
About the National Science Foundation’s Small Business Programs: NSF SBIR/STTR program, also known as America’s Seed Fund powered by NSF, awards $200 million annually to startups and small businesses, transforming scientific discovery into products and services with commercial and societal impact. Startups working across almost all areas of science and technology can receive up to $1.75 million to support R&D, helping de-risk technology for commercial success. The NSF is an independent federal agency with a budget of about $8.1 billion that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. Small businesses with innovative science and technology solutions, and commercial potential are encouraged to apply. All proposals submitted to the NSF SBIR/STTR program undergo a rigorous merit-based review process. To learn more about the program, visit: https://seedfund.nsf.gov/
For further information about this project, please contact Dan Satinsky, daniel.satinsky@