TDO Support Services

TDO – Your Partner in Success

If you have an innovative technical idea that you can describe in a proposal, have access to personnel who can perform the research, and have a vision for commercialization, TDO can help increase your chances of winning SBIR awards!

TDO provides innovative companies with hands-on SBIR & STTR assistance.

• Strategies on approaching SBIR/STTR
• Coaching on licensing and IP issues
• University access to set-up academic/private sector partnerships
• One-on-one consultations through the proposal writing process – proposal preparation, budgeting, and reviewing the technical concepts
• Proposal review before submission to the funding agency
• Transition assistance, Phase I to Phase II and Phase II to Phase III
• Access to other SBIR winners for mentoring or advice
• Understanding what improvements are needed to a rejected proposal
• Commercialization assistance

Currently, TDO's SBIR Outreach program is available in the Central New York, Mohawk Valley, Capital District, Southern Tier, and North Country regions of New York State and in other regions based on referral from the local Regional Technology Development Center (RTDC).

For more information on the SBIR/STTR Technology Commercialization Assistance program, contact our SBIR & Business Development Specialist, Marcene S. Sonneborn.

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