Given Creare’s successes in technology conversion to product, we often review inquiries from other small R&D firms, as well as government and academic agencies, that seek to transition their own advanced technology level into real-world applications.

A recent NASA video highlighted Creare’s commercialization successes; our cryogenics refrigerator technology (which was installed on the Hubble Space Telescope in 2001 to restore a dormant instrument), our ring-buffered-network-data-bus (which has been helping Dryden Flight Center perform flight tests on advanced aircraft), and our miniature turbomolecular pump technology (which is being readied for use on a Mars probe scheduled for launch in 2009).

The National Academy of Sciences is conducting a Congressionally mandated study on the Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR); and Creare is sharing its experience establishing numerous spinoff companies and licensing technology to other companies, while maintaining continuity of staff and mission for over 45 years. Given Creare’s involvement in the SBIR program since its inception, we are able to offer a unique perspective on program changes and the effects on SBIR participants.

In the meanwhile, new technologies continue to wind their way through the Creare development process toward real world applications.

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