Proposals due Sept. 11 for intellectual property development grant program

The IP Commercialization & Economic Development (IPCED) office and ND EPSCoR are pleased to announce a call for proposals for a new Intellectual Property Development Grant Program to be held in the 2015-2016 fiscal year. This program is designed to support the further development of existing invention disclosures and IP at UND. Each recipient will receive financial support of up to $10,000 (5 expected awards), although awards for more than $10,000 would be considered.

Proposals are due in the IPCED Office by 4 p.m. Sept. 11, 2015. A 2-5 page interim report will be provided no later than Jan. 15, 2016 and a final report no later than July 31, 2016. If there are insufficient meritorious proposals to award all the funds, a second round of proposals will be sought.

The sole eligibility requirement is that applicants must be a research scientist (faculty, staff) or a STEM student (graduate and undergraduate) at UND with a pending invention disclosure (with or without a pending patent application) in the IPCED office that is in need of additional work to close the gap to commercialization.

Proposal electronic copy: Send complete proposal, as a single PDF file, to michael.p.sadler@research.und.edu

Applications should be no more than three 8 ½” x 11” pages with standard 1” margins on all sides and no less than 11-point font, and should include the following:

• Identification of the IPCED invention (name/title of disclosure and IPCED file number) and patent application (if any)
• Project description/work-scope
• Budget
• Timeline
• Description of how this project moves the invention closer to being ready to transfer to a third party or how it would support the development of a start-up entity which would commercialize the invention.

Hyperlinks to additional information will not be considered.

Applications will be subject to competitive review and ranking by a committee consisting of IPCED and members of the Research Division.

Please direct questions to Michael Moore at 777.6709 or michael.f.moore@research.und.edu .