Innovation Resources

Executive Memos and Directives and Other Federal Resources

• American Innovation and Competiveness Act (AICA)external icon
• CDC Health Information Innovation Consortium (CHIIC)
• HHS Open Government Planpdf iconexternal icon
• OMB Open Government
  • Challenges and Prizesexternal icon
• US Government Accountability Office (US GAO) Report to Congressional Committees – Open Innovationexternal icon

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program:

• CDC SBIR
• NIH/CDC/FDA SBIRexternal icon
• Small Business Administration (SBA) SBIR/STTR Policy Directivepdf icon
• SBA’s SBIR.gov Siteexternal icon
• SBA’s SBIR.gov Local Resources Locator Linkexternal icon
• Life Science Contacts by Stateexternal icon

Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science

• Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science at the CDCpdf icon
• White House Memo to report Citizen Sciencepdf icon
• CitizenScience.govexternal icon
• Other Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science websites
  • Citizen Science Associationexternal icon
  • CitSci.orgexternal icon

Human Centered Design Training

• Stanford d.school’s Virtual Crash Course in Design Thinkingexternal icon (free video tutorial)
• IDEO.ORG’s Field Guide to Human Centered Designexternal icon (free download)
• +ACUMEN’s Design Kit: The Course for Human-Centered Designexternal icon (free online course—check for future dates)
• Entrepreneurial design principles and methods (free online course)external icon
• Office of Personnel Management’s Fundamentals of Human-Centered Designexternal icon

Other Internal Federal Funding Opportunities

• HHS Ignite Acceleratorexternal icon
• CDC Innovation Fund (intramural funds for CDC Employees)