Membership and Benefits

Membership Benefits

• Increase company’s competitiveness through deliverable oriented collaboration with academia and agencies
• Access (and hire) students cultivated through collaborative research and development (R&D)
• Free access to R&D results worth 10-100 times by investing limited funding each yea

Membership Types

Membership	Regular Membership	NSF SBIR/STTR Grantee Firms	Non-SBIR/STTR Small Business	Special Membership
Eligibility	Any companies, government agencies and non-government organizations	Companies with active NSF SBIR/STTR Phase II and Phase IIB awards	Companies with small business concern defined by the Small Business Association	Any companies, government agencies and non-government organizations who intent to observe the research agenda and operation mechanism of the center.
Membership Type	Full	Full	Full	Affiliated
Membership Fee	$50,000	$5,000 paid by the company with NSF providing the balance ($45,000)	$25,000	$5,000
Membership Period	One year	One year	One year	One year
Property Access	Full access to intellectual property	Full access to intellectual property	Full access to intellectual property	Access to general research project information, not full intellectual property
Voting rights	50 votes for determining project funding allocation, and 1 vote in determining center management issues	50 votes for determining project funding allocation, and 1 vote in determining center management issues	25 votes for determining project funding allocation, and 1 vote in determining center management issues	No voting Right