In 1999, the Vermont Technology Council and several partner organizations created our state’s first comprehensive SBIR outreach program. The program, now led by the Vermont Small Business Development Center, has provided workshops and forums, an outreach website, and mentoring.

Due in part to these efforts, Vermont firms have received over $50 million in federal SBIR grants. In 2004 alone, 18 small businesses received over $7.3 million from 7 federal agencies.

For over 20 years, federal Small Business Innovation Research programs have served as a vital source of research and development funding for high-tech companies.

Vermont’s Science and Technology Plan, first published in 1994, emphasized the crucial role that federal SBIR programs could play in supporting the growth of technology-based business.

SBIR outreach has taken place in Vermont ever since, initially through Vermont EPSCoR.

Vermont SBIR

The Power to Soar

Concepts NREC, a turbomachinery design and development firm in Wilder, has successfully competed for over 30 SBIR grants from NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense.

The SBIR grants, worth nearly $8 million, have funded advances in turbine engine and liquid rocket engine design, and helped the company maintain its international leadership position.

145 Billings Farm Road
White River Junction, VT 05001
Mark Blanchard,
Technology Development Advisor
281-5236
mblancha@vtsbdc.org
www.vtsbdc.org/technology.cfm