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EDA Announces Competition to Bring Innovative Ideas to Market

Submitted on May 3, 2010 - 10:20am
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The i6 Challenge is a new $12 million innovation competition administered by the Economic Development Administration (EDA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) [8] and National Science Foundation (NSF) [9]. EDA will award up to $1 million to each of six winning teams with the most innovative ideas to drive technology commercialization and entrepreneurship in their regions. NIH and NSF will award a total of up to $6 million in supplemental funding to their SBIR grantees that are associated or partnered with the winning teams. (More [10]) (Press release [11]—PDF)

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