The minutes of the previous meeting could not be approved because the number of attendees did not constitute a quorum. The college has had a policy of reimbursing PI's of SBIR projects for the part of the overhead that the University keeps. The rationale is that the amount of support per project is so small that there will not be enough funds left for conducting research after the overhead is subtracted.
Current policy calls for reviewing each proposal individually for the possibility of reimbursement.
Only six Phase I studies were funded in the last three years, and no Phase II proposal have been won in recent years. 22universities as to their practice with regard to SBIR projects. A. Wojcik will provide a copy of the survey.