{"id":649,"date":"2021-01-16T10:10:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T10:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/?p=649"},"modified":"2021-01-16T10:10:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T10:10:50","slug":"michigan-state-university-foundation-wins-tibbetts-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/news\/michigan-state-university-foundation-wins-tibbetts-award","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State University Foundation Wins Tibbetts Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

EAST LANSING, Michigan –  The Michigan State University Foundation\u202fannounced today that it is one of the recipients of the Tibbetts Awards given by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).\u202fA non-profit organization, the\u202fMSU Foundation’s\u202fmission supports research, entrepreneurship, economic development, and placemaking activities at\u202fMichigan State University (MSU)\u202fand beyond.\u202f<\/p>\n

The Tibbetts Award 2020 honors outstanding small businesses and individuals who participate in the SBA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. Named after Roland Tibbetts, selected organizations and individuals from across the United States receive the award based on promise and models of excellence in high technology.<\/p>\n

“We place a very strong emphasis on startup companies that we’re helping seek SBIR\/STTR funding to help bring new technologies to market,” said MSU Foundation Executive Director, David Washburn. “We’ve put resources in place to ensure our entities can compete for and win these awards to help advance the science.”<\/p>\n

The MSU Foundation is made up of four entities: Spartan Innovations, Red Cedar Ventures, Michigan Rise, and University Corporate Research Park (UCRP). Spartan Innovations drives venture creation by working directly with entrepreneurs to develop their ideas, create business plans, and successfully launch highly technical businesses.<\/p>\n

“Our team has been instrumental in supporting high-tech, small businesses originating from MSU,” said Dr. Brad Fingland, Director of Venture Creation,\u202fSpartan Innovations. “Since 2018, our startups have won 20 SBIR\/STTR awards for a total of $6.6 million.”<\/p>\n

“One example of a higher impact activity is our Entrepreneur-in-Residence\u202f(EIR) program,” said Dr. Fingland. “These entrepreneurs’ author and\u202f\u2013 oftentimes \u2013\u202fact\u202fas principal investigators in proposals. A recent\u202fEIR\u202fsuccess story is\u202fDr. Keith Evans,\u202fformer EIR and\u202fcurrent CEO\u202fat Great Lakes Crystal Technologies,\u202fwho\u202fwas essential in winning\u202ffive SBIR\/STTRs as an EIR.”<\/p>\n

The Tibbetts Award is presented to those who have leveraged SBIR\/STTR investment or \u2013 as is the case for the MSU Foundation \u2013 helped others do so, generating measurable impact that demonstrates the spirit and mission if SBIR\/STTR programs. MSU Foundation’s focus on technology commercialization and economic development have been essential in strengthening the role a SBIR\/STTR has in building successful small businesses.<\/p>\n

“The SBIR\/STTR program is a foundational tool in our efforts to bring groundbreaking technologies from the laboratory to market,” said Washburn. “We are thankful to be included as one of the recipients of the prestigious Tibbetts Award.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EAST LANSING, Michigan –  The Michigan State University Foundation\u202fannounced today that it is one of the recipients of the Tibbetts Awards given by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).\u202fA non-profit organization, the\u202fMSU Foundation’s\u202fmission supports research, entrepreneurship, economic development, and placemaking activities at\u202fMichigan State University (MSU)\u202fand beyond.\u202f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,188,809,1],"tags":[812,810,811],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-featured","category-michigin","category-news","tag-michigan-state-university","tag-michigin","tag-tibbetts-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}