This year the Far West Region is conducting our annual Regional Meeting/Training Session in Las Vegas, NV in conjunction with the National SBIR Conference on November 23, 1999. The interactive workshop offered this year is entitled "Corporate Growth & Profit Through Technology Commercialization". This custom designed program is based upon objectives developed for the needs of both federal laboratories and the high tech small business community and is open to the attendees of the SBIR Conference as well as the FLC attendees. Early registration for the workshop has exceeded 200.
The National SBIR Conference is being held November 21-23 at the Las Vegas Hilton. The SBIR Conference has provided the Region exhibit space and one-on-one tables which will allow the ORTAs in attendance to meet small business representatives in a highly focused and personalized setting. There will be hundreds of businesses looking for opportunities to partner with federal laboratories.
Progress is continuing on the national demonstration project, The Federal Resource Access Partnership Program. The Department of Commerce, in conjunction with the Far West Region and CORE 21, finalized the project questionnaires and over 5,000 are being mailed out to businesses. The business needs identified by the responses will be matched to the resources, technologies, and intellectual property at the region’s member laboratories and the Arial, Helveticaities and college members of CORE 21. This is an opportunity to leverage your laboratory assets by addressing identified and focused needs.
As we have previously discussed, the Far West Region is aggressively moving ahead in the electronic media services provided by the region. We have created a comprehensive Far West Regional home page http://www.zyn.com/flcfw. One of the special features of the home page allows you to advertise your laboratory key assets to the public and private sectors through an "Opportunities Page." It is our goal to provide value added tools and techniques through this home page to help position your laboratory for the 21st Century in Information Technology and E-Commerce.
Dr. Mike Sullivan
Email: sullivanme@navair.navy.mil
Web Page: http://happy.mugu.navy.mil/TT