SSTI's 12th Annual Conference - Posters for TBED Hall of Success

Outline of What Posters for the TBED Hall of Success Should Include
Your poster should highlight a single achievement (not the entire organization) in one or more of six key elements of successful technology-based economic development:

Expanding the Research Infrastructure: Projects within initiatives that strengthen the capacity to conduct research in universities, federal labs or the private sector. This may include initiatives to expand research facilities, recruit eminent scholars, or increasing research funding through R&D tax credits.
Commercializing Research: Projects within initiatives that promote the conversion of research (from universities, federal labs or other research institutions) into technologies and products with high commercial potential.
Building Entrepreneurial Capacity: Projects within initiatives that encourage entrepreneurship and support entrepreneurs, including enriching the skills and ability of entrepreneurs, increasing the capacity of entrepreneurs to successfully start and grow companies, and improving the environment for entrepreneurial development.
Increasing Access to Capital: Projects within initiatives that enhance the ability of companies to access start-up capital or fill other critical stages of capital formation in order to bring products to market and to grow.
Enhancing the Science & Technology Workforce: Projects within initiatives that seek to expand the science and technology workforce, improve the skill levels of science and technology workers, or assist industry in finding and maintaining a globally competitive science & technology workforce.
Improving Competitiveness of Existing Industries: Projects within initiatives that expand the innovation capacity of existing companies or industries to develop new leading edge products or services or significantly enhance the competitiveness of their existing operations.

Every success story poster must address each of the following:

TITLE: Give the achievement a brief but distinguishing title for ease of communicating and remembering among all of the successes. WHICH TBED element(s) does or do the success story highlight:

Improving Competitiveness of Existing Industries

WHO: identify all of the partners relevant to the success.
WHAT: briefly describe the selected achievement in terms understandable by the general public.
HOW: state specifically how your program assisted the project (e.g. the inputs your organization provided, the services utilized, etc.)
WHEN: the timeline for the success story.
WHY: why this particular story was selected as a significant achievement - include hard, quantifiable economic and/or societal outcome measures that are documented or certified by the member organization or client firm. Graphs and charts showing growing impacts over time are particularly valuable to provide evidence of the time-lag inherent in many TBED investments. Remember, even modest impacts can take on significant importance if occurring in distressed or rural areas. Additionally, modest investments can have significant impacts beyond immediate economic returns (e.g. health or environmental costs reduced, lives improved, etc).
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact information and URLs to obtain more information about the particular TBED programs or activities involved in the success story.