The BHIRC is participating with the IU Innovation and Commercialization Office (ICO) and the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center (NIIC) in the SBA FAST program, which is responsible for helping faculty and students apply for and win more SBIR/STTR grants to start new businesses. The NIIC is coordinating this effort by providing the training while the BHIRC and ICO will work to identify potential candidates and set up the training for candidates associated with IU. This will be the first collaboration between these three organizations to help develop the business infrastructure growing academic intellectual property developed at IU.