Winners Gallery
Tibbetts Award
Prizes
- Tibbetts Award (24)
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All Tibbetts Award winners will be selected by the SBA based on the recommendations of a panel of judges. A maximum of 60 awards may be given to eligible Tibbetts Awards nominees. There is no monetary value to the Tibbetts Award. All awardees are invited to Washington DC at their own expense to attend the Tibbetts Awards ceremony.
About the Challenge
The Tibbetts Awards are presented to those small businesses and individuals judged to exemplify the best in the SBIR program. The award is named for Roland Tibbetts, acknowledged as the father of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, and is presented to companies and individuals that promote the mission and goals of the SBIR program and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR):
- to stimulate technological innovation;
- to use small business to meet federal research and development needs;
- to encourage diverse participation in technological innovation; and
- to increase commercialization of Federal research.
Judges
DoT SBIR Program Manager
HHS/NIH SBIR Program Manager
NIST SBIR Program Manager
President at ZYN Systems
EPA SBIR Program Manager
DoED SBIR Program Manager
NASA SBIR Program Staff
Program Analyst at Office of Technology, SBA
DoD SOCOM SBIR Program Manager
NASA SBIR Program Manager
Judging Criteria
- Technical Innovation
Technical innovation – e.g., how the technical innovation has advanced national priorities in R&D, how the technical innovation has benefited the federal government or private citizens
- Business Impact
Business impact - e.g., job creation and retention, revenue growth, successful acquisition or financial exit
- Broader Societal and Economic Benefit
Broader social and economic benefit – e.g., encouraging women and minority participation in R&D, supporting regional economic development, creating connections to local universities
How to Enter
Tibbetts Award Nomination Process
Nominations will be accepted starting December 15, 2011. The nomination period will close on January 31, 2012 at 11:59 PM ET. Anyone can nominate a business and/or individual for a Tibbetts Award – including self-nominations. Nomination packages must be submitted through the Challenge.gov portal using the “Enter a Submission” tab. Please note, you will need to establish a free account with Challenge.gov in order to submit any nominations.
Nomination packages must contain all the elements listed below, be uploaded in either MS Word or PDF format and must not exceed the page or word limits identified below.
- Business or individual profile, including (as applicable): (1 page)
- Select award: SBIR Recipient or Individual
- Business Name
- Name of Business Owner/Operator or Individual
- Mailing address
- Phone number
- SBIR Award Year
- SBIR Award Title
- SBIR Award Phase
- SBIR Awarding Agency
- Name of Nominator (if not self)
- Nominator’s Affiliation
- Nominator’s email
- Nominator’s phone number
- 500 word (or less) description of the business or profile of individual who supports the SBIR program for public release – in case you win
- Five (5) page (or less) narrative answering the question with specific references to the evaluation criteria identified above: “Why does this business/individual deserve to win the Tibbetts Award?”
- Photograph of nominee(s) for public release
- OPTIONAL - Letters of support (no more than 3 letters may be submitted)