Innovation Resources
Executive Memos and Directives and Other Federal Resources
- American Innovation and Competiveness Act (AICA)
- CDC Health Information Innovation Consortium (CHIIC)
- HHS Open Government Plan
- OMB Open Government
- US Government Accountability Office (US GAO) Report to Congressional Committees – Open Innovation
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program:
- CDC SBIR
- NIH/CDC/FDA SBIR
- Small Business Administration (SBA) SBIR/STTR Policy Directive
- SBA’s SBIR.gov Site
- SBA’s SBIR.gov Local Resources Locator Link
- Life Science Contacts by State
Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science
- Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science at the CDC
- White House Memo to report Citizen Science
- CitizenScience.gov
- Other Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science websites
Human Centered Design Training
- Stanford d.school’s Virtual Crash Course in Design Thinking (free video tutorial)
- IDEO.ORG’s Field Guide to Human Centered Design (free download)
- +ACUMEN’s Design Kit: The Course for Human-Centered Design (free online course—check for future dates)
- Entrepreneurial design principles and methods (free online course)
- Office of Personnel Management’s Fundamentals of Human-Centered Design
Other Internal Federal Funding Opportunities
- HHS Ignite Accelerator
- CDC Innovation Fund (intramural funds for CDC Employees)
For more information, contact us at OTI@cdc.gov.