Innovators

Tech-to-Market programs are working to remove the barriers that prevent American researchers, entrepreneurs, and small businesses from translating their new ideas into the advanced energy technology products and services critical to our economic competitiveness and national security, and prosperity. Tech-to-Market program dates and opportunities for clean energy innovators are listed below.

Cleantech University Prize Competition (Cleantech UP)

• 2018 Regional Cleantech UP Competitions
  • Allegheny Regional Cleantech UP, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Berkeley Cleantech UP, Berkeley, California
  • Clean Energy Trust (CET) Cleantech UP, Chicago, Illinois
  • First Look West (FLOW), Pasadena, California
  • MIT Clean Energy Prize, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Megawatt Ventures, Orlando, Florida
  • Rice Business Plan Competition, Houston, Texas
  • Rutgers LaunchR, New Bruswick, New Jersey
• Click here to see the winners of the 2017 National Cleantech UP Competition

Energy I-Corps (for U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory researchers)

• Energy I-Corps Cohort 7 - details to come

Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Programs* 

• Program Cohorts – Applications Status
  • Cyclotron Road at Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory:
    • Cohort 1 – applications closed
    • Cohort 2 – applications closed
    • Cohort 3 – applications closed
    • Cohort 4 – applications closed
       
  • Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne National Laboratory 
    • Cohort 1 – applications closed
    • Cohort 2 – applications closed
       
  • Innovation Crossroads at Oak Ridge National Laboratory 
    • Cohort 1 – applications closed
    • Cohort 2 – applications closed

*Program funded by the Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) and co-managed by Tech-to-Market

EERE Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program

• EERE SBIR/STTR Fiscal Year 2018 Dates**
  • Phase I, Release 1
    • Topics issued: CLICK HERE FOR TOPICS
    • Topics webinars: CLICK HERE FOR LINKS TO RECORDINGS
    • FOA issued: CLICK HERE TO VIEW FOA
  • Phase I, Release 2
    • Topics issued: CLICK HERE FOR TOPICS
    • FOA issued: CLICK HERE TO VIEW FOA
    • EERE Topics webinar: CLICK HERE FOR LINKS TO RECORDINGS
  • Phase II, Release 1
    • FOA issued: CLICK HERE TO VIEW FOA
  • Phase II, Release 2
    • FOA issued: February 12, 2018
    • Letters of Intent due: March 14, 2018 (DELAYED)
    • Applications due: April 3, 2018 (DELAYED)

**Dates are subject to change; visit this page for current dates and information

Small Business Vouchers (SBV)

• Round 4 - details to come

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Incubatenergy, a national network of incubators and accelerators, provides valuable resources for cleantech startups and entrepreneurs
• The Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) within the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) leverages research and development funding in the applied energy programs to mature promising energy technologies with the potential for high impact
• EERE Funding Opportunity Exchange is the official platform to find, apply for, and manage EERE funding opportunity applications