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Early Stage Innovation Fund

This program will support early-stage innovations and applied research with significant potential for commercial or community impact. These funds are meant to seed USF-developed innovations that could lead to industry investment, community engagement, start-up creation, and/or licensing opportunities. ¹ú²ú¶ÌÊÓƵresearchers may request up to $25,000 to support ¹ú²ú¶ÌÊÓƵresearch expenses associated with the further development of the target innovation.

The Early Stage Innovation Fund is not currently accepting proposals. Information on future calls will be posted on this page in Fall 2024.  Information will also be shared with the Research Investigators Listserv. To subscribe to that listserv, click here.

To learn more about the program, please review FY24 Guidelines and Application Instructions.

Past awards provided through the Corridor Early-Stage Innovation Fund:

• USF, Florida High Tech Corridor partner to support advancement of innovations (August 24, 2024)
  
  
• ¹ú²ú¶ÌÊÓƵResearch & Innovation and the Florida High Tech Corridor partner to fund Early-Stage Innovation Awards (February 27, 2023)
  
  
• USF, Corridor collaboration supports sustainable manufacturing, defense technology and Alzheimer’s research (June 27, 2023)
  
  
• USF, Corridor collaboration supports infrastructure innovation, vaccine development and infection fighting strategies (March 4, 2024)