July 18, 2025 – The Louisiana Technology Transfer Office (LTTO), a program under Louisiana Economic Development’s Louisiana Innovation initiative (LA.IO), has launched a new educational series to help innovators, startups, and small businesses navigate the federal SBIR/STTR funding process. Titled “The SBIR/STTR Advantage Series,” the multi-part program aims to guide participants from proposal preparation through commercialization.
The series begins July 22 with an in-person “Proposal Preparation Intensive” at the New Orleans BioInnovation Center, a private, not-for-profit business incubator, supporting entrepreneurship and dedicated to the development of bioscience innovation throughout Louisiana. The Center works directly with entrepreneurs and researchers to commercialize new technologies spinning out of Louisiana universities and healthcare institutions, as well as those developed by independent innovators, to start and scale new globally competitive life science companies.