USDA RESEARCH
AT
TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY
JOHN MASSINGILL, Ph.D.
INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE
CENTER FOR COATINGS AND BIOBASED TECHNOLOGY
2000-2009
CENTER FOR COATINGS AND BIOBASED TECHNOLOGY
FOUNDED -2000
National Science Foundation
National Academies of Sciences
United Soybean Board
Michigan Soybean Promotion Board
Iowa Soybean Promotion Board
Southern California Air Quality Management District
Southern California Edison
Army
Navy
USDA
SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH- SBIR
SMALL – LESS THAN 500 EMPLOYEES
BUSINESS- FOR PROFIT
SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP
LLC
CORPORATION
PARTNERSHIP
LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
INNOVATION- DEVELOP SOMETHING NEW
RESEARCH- CREATIVE WORK TO INCREASE THE STOCK OF KNOWLEDGE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Advanced Materials and Processes
wishes to acknowledge:
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
for
SBIR Phase I and Phase II grants.
Special thanks to:
Charles F. Cleland, SBIR National Program Leader, SBIR-NIFA
William Goldner, National Program Leader, SBIR-NIFA
USDA SBIR
ADVANCED MATERIALS AND PROCESSES
FOUNDED 2005
USDA Phase I SBIR with CBDC as the Small Company
BIOBASED PVC PLASTICIZERS
USDA Phase I SBIR with Environment Services & Products, INC
ANTI-TERMITE PAINT
USDA SBIR
USDA Phase I SBIR 2005-33610-15504
High Yield, High Efficiency Biorefining
CSREES POC Dr. Bill Goldner
USDA Phase II SBIR 2006-33610-17174
USDA SBIR- Phase III
ADVANCED MATERIALS AND PROCESSES
CHEMTOR, L.P. –Founded 2009
High Yield, High Efficiency Biorefining
Pilot Plant Being Constructed at
Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio
Successful operation will be followed by:
• 1.2 MM gal/year corn oil biodiesel plant in Nebraska
• 12 MM gal/yr biorefining plant in Germany
SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH- SBIR
What is Commercialization?
Commercialization involves a sale. The buyer pays the inventor for some
or all of rights in the technology. Money changes hands.
As the inventor, unless you sign away your ownership rights, you own
what springs forth out of your head.
What Every Researcher Needs to Know About Commercialization
Phyl Speser, J.D. Ph.D. Foresight Science & Technology Incorporated
November 9, 2008
SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH- SBIR
Who is an Inventor?
Whenever you manipulate the physical world in new ways and get new
outcomes, you have made an invention.
Inventors are the people who conceive useful ideas and describe them
in such a way that they can be made.
Co-inventors arise when bouncing around ideas and brainstorming leads
one to suddenly conceive the invention. Brainstorming involves building
upon each other’s ideas of how to do something useful with the
background information. The process of invention began when the
discussion shifted from what was known to how to do something new.
SUMMARY
SBIR and STTR Projects are GREAT WAYS
TO FINANCE R&D on INVENTIONS
Being an Entrepreneur is challenging
but rewarding
AMP APPRECIATES THE SUPPORT OF THE USDA
TO BRING HIGH EFFICIENCY BIOREFINING PROCESSES TO
COMMERCIALIZATION