The application period has opened for the Office of Technology Transitions Fiscal Year 2025 Core Laboratory Infrastructure for Market Readiness Lab Call. DOE’s Building Technologies Office is one of 14 DOE offices participating in this year’s lab call.
October 29, 2024
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The application period has opened for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Core Laboratory Infrastructure for Market Readiness (CLIMR) Lab Call. DOE’s Building Technologies Office is one of 14 DOE offices participating in this year’s lab call, and private entities from across the buildings sector are encouraged to collaborate on projects led by DOE’s national laboratories.
The FY25 CLIMR Lab Call allocates part of the DOE’s Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF), whose mission is to support technologies with commercial potential that originate at DOE national laboratories by attracting partners who will develop products and sell them into viable markets. This process fills a key need for many labs as they assess their own portfolios, identify the highest-quality prospective partners, and assist those industry partners in evaluating technologies for their business models.
While only DOE national laboratories are eligible for funding from this lab call, every funded project must include at least one private sector partner. Incubators, accelerators, manufacturers, and trade associations are among the range of partner types encouraged to partner with national labs through the CLIMR lab call, as they are well positioned to help energy-related national lab-developed technology advance toward commercialization.
More information on how to join the teaming partner process and eligibility follow the CLIMR 2025 Topics list.
CLIMR 2025 Topics
The following six topics are now accepting proposals.
- Topic 1: Market Needs Assessment – Identify and analyze emerging market needs, competitive cost analysis, and public and private market trends to develop a strategy that will maximize success of technology commercialization from national labs.
- Topic 2: Curation of Intellectual Property (IP), Data, and Software – Develop and implement streamlined and innovative strategies for labs to connect their IP, data, and software to promising partners in the private sector.
- Topic 3: Matchmaking – Develop or expand business incubation programming to create new partnerships that will move national lab-developed technologies to market.
- Topic 4: Technology Specific Partnership Projects – Advance the commercialization of individual energy-related national lab-developed technologies by demonstrating clear evidence of commercial potential that combines technology progress with market pull or interest.
- Topic 5: Enhancing Laboratory Processes – Address barriers to effective and efficient implementation of national lab processes to facilitate moving lab-developed, promising energy-related technologies toward commercialization.
- Topic 6: Increasing Partnerships with External Commercialization Parties, Private Funders, Non-profits, and Agency- or Lab-Related Foundations – Improve how labs attract, recruit, and retain external partners to further develop and commercialize technologies by decreasing barriers to working with the labs, increasing the number and diversity of private sector partners, and accelerating and deepening connectivity with diverse commercialization stakeholders.
How to Apply
Eligibility
Only national laboratories are eligible for funding from this lab call, but funded projects must include a private sector partner. The TCF is looking to engage with a broad range of partners – from incubators and accelerators to manufacturers and trade associations—to join these pursuits toward commercialization. Additional partners can be any nonfederal entity, including private companies, state or local governments (or entities created by a state or local government), colleges, universities, tribal entities, or nonprofit organizations.
Teaming Partner List
To facilitate multi-lab or external partnerships, this lab call offers an opportunity for private industry to partner with DOE’s national labs. Private entities are invited to collaborate to advance energy-related national-lab-developed technology toward commercialization and to reduce the barriers to commercializing lab-developed energy-related technologies and intellectual property. To support this collaboration, DOE will compile a Teaming Partner List to facilitate the formation of new project teams.
Any organization that would like to be included on this list should find the Teaming Partner List for this solicitation (TPL-0000059) on Exchange and submit their organization name and basic details, contact information, area of expertise, and applicable CLIMR topics and subtopics.
Apply Today!
The deadline to submit concept papers is Tuesday, December 17, 2024, at 3 p.m. ET. Full Applications are due on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 3 pm ET.
An informational webinar will be held for all potential applicants on Wednesday, October 30, 3–4 pm ET. Register today!