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
  • Challenges and Prizes
• 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
  • Citizen Science Association
  • CitSci.org

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.