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Research Seed Grants are small awards designed to cover direct costs associated with initiating and/or conducting professional research that demonstrates high potential for publication in refereed academic journals and attracting external funding in the future.

What is the amount of funding?

Faculty may propose either individual or team projects; however, the aggregate amount of funding available for any one proposal (including proposals where faculty work in groups) in any given fiscal year is no more than $3,500.

Who may apply?

All full-time, tenured, tenure-track, and instructional faculty in the College of Business are eligible to apply.

How may the funds be used?

Funds may be used to support reasonable expenses directly associated with the publishable research. Examples of expenses include photocopying, printing, instrumentation costs, mailing, conducting an online survey, purchasing data, travel expenses to collect data (i.e., economy class airfare, hotel accommodations, per diem), student wages, hiring graduate assistants or other research assistants, and article submission fees (50% on submission and 50% on acceptance). Requests for research project-related equipment and software may be considered but only in the context of the research proposal. Seed grant funds that are used to purchase licensing, software, or other research-related technology must comply with all Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ University Office of Information Technology (OIT) policies and requirements.

Funds should be used between March 1 of the seed grant funding year and June 30 of the following year.

What are non-fundable expenses?

Funds are not available for general-purpose equipment or software, workshop and conference attendance, on-going periodical subscriptions, professional dues, research stipends, salary supplements, and professional development activities. Your department may have funds for some or all of these activities. Also, funds cannot be used to develop material, the sole purpose of which is classroom usage.

How can I enhance my chances for funding?

• Present a specific research idea or question that is firmly grounded in the literature and guides your request for research funding. Explain how the research will be conducted and how it will contribute to the existing body of literature.
• Avoid general requests that have no relationship to a specific research question or agenda.
  For example, a general request for the purchase of a database, with no specific research study to accompany the request, will probably not be successful.
• Include evidence to support your ability/desire to conduct research. For example, conference papers presented, cases published, refereed articles published. You might consider attaching your vita as documentation of your past research output.

When can I apply?

ICCIT will distribute a Call for Seed Grant applications in January each year. Applications are typically due in early February. Please check with the current ICCIT Chair for specific dates.

How can I apply?

An electronic submission, preferably in .pdf format as an attachment to an e-mail, is required. Submit materials to the ICCIT Chair.

When are funding decisions announced?

The ICCIT will attempt to make its funding recommendation to the Dean’s Office within three weeks of the deadline for submission of proposals.

What is my responsibility to the college?

Individuals who have received college support through the Research Seed Grants are expected to present their research in the College’s Faculty Research Colloquium Series. Yearly progress report on research is expected. Grant recipients who fail to provide a yearly progress report or to present their research will not be allowed to apply for additional seed grants until they have fulfilled these expectations.

Can I pool seed grants?

Sometimes, a researcher needs to purchase research resources (e.g., software, database access), that cost more than the maximum seed grant award. As such, the researcher may want to split the resource cost with a co-author internal or external to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ University College of Business. Seed grants do allow for the possibility of pooling funds. If researchers residing within the College of Business desire to pool multiple grant proposals (three maximum), individual proposals must each meet established seed grant criteria. In the case of external co-author collaboration, payments must be made directly to vendor(s) as partial payments (exceptions to this policy must be approved in advance and will be considered only in rare instances such as when partial payment to a vendor is not possible).

Questions? Contact: ICCIT Chair