Business Proposal Writing for Ignition Awards
In this tutorial, offered to researchers writing a proposal for an Ignition Award, Abi Barrow, PhD of Cambridge Innovation Partners provides tools and guidance for writing the Ignition Award proposal.
The tutorial focuses on BU’s Ignition Award, which supports research projects whose PI has the intention to pursue the commercial potential for the idea.
Participants can expect to leave the tutorial with a stronger understanding of how to describe your invention or project to show technical feasibility, illustrate a market problem and your solution to it, and establish project deliverables that can attract next-round funding.
Topics considered:
- How to describe your idea and the project needed to show technical feasibility
- How to illustrate the market problem and your solution to it, and how to document market-scale.
- How to establish project deliverables—and show how these deliverables will help attract more funding to advance the idea
Resources from Past Sessions
About Abi Barrow
Abi Barrow has run proof of concept programs in California and Massachusetts. At UCSD she established and managed the von Liebig Center, one of the first dedicated centers focused on commercializing inventions in a school of engineering. At UMass she ran several grant programs to fund the development of commercialize-able technologies, including internal system-wide funding programs and two state-wide grant programs open to all public and private universities. She now runs Cambridge Innovation Partners, a consultancy supporting university commercialization programs and offering coaching to start-up and scale-up companies.