How Awards and Competitions Foster Tech Transfer at NASA

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Budgets are tight. Marketing is expensive.

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Awards can be a marketing tool

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Use awards strategically

Use awards to highlight your organization’s key strengths

Use awards to highlight your organization’s key strengths

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Screen nominees

carefully to ensure they

closely match the award’s

focus

Screen nominees

carefully to ensure they

closely match the award’s

focus

Awards come in all shapes and sizes

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Maintain a database of emerging

research and innovations

Maintain a database of emerging

research and innovations

Track innovations closely

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Timing is everything

Submit before the eligibility

window closes

Submit before the eligibility

window closes

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Boost morale and your

organization’s prestige by applying for

individual and team awards

Boost morale and your

organization’s prestige by applying for

individual and team awards

High-five your innovators

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You won. Now what?

Leverage the win through

your website, social media,

press releases, etc.

Leverage the win through

your website, social media,

press releases, etc.

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Then go after even more awards!

Leverage your application to

apply for additional

awards

Leverage your application to

apply for additional

awards

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