Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) is a program of the federal government that provides seed funds to small businesses to support research and development with the potential for commercialization.
STTR funds small businesses that are developing and want to commercialize innovative biomedical technologies in collaboration with a nonprofit research institution. The business must perform at least 40% of the work, and the research institute must perform at least 30%.
The NIH and NSF are among the federal agencies that offer STTR funding.
