Instead, AITIA was able to circumvent the restrictions by inking a deal with Toshiba's handset division (which never collaborated with a smaller company before).
All three agreed that collaborating with a small, independent label strengthened, not weakened, their ability to treat a musical career as at once a form of free speech and real work.
Though SBIR grants require you to be employed by a small business at the time the award is made, with STTR grants you can keep your day job, as long as you are collaborating with a small business.
From the perspective of how much contributors act, studies in several systems have generally found a majority of less active contributors collaborating with a small proportion of highly active contributors [2, 3, 13, 15, 17, 19].
Both islands host American bases, and even in these straitened times the Pentagon's budget can stretch to an experimental technology that might reduce a base's fuel consumption.The actual experiment, though, is on Hawaii, where Lockheed is collaborating with a smaller firm, Makai Ocean Engineering, to build a ten megawatt (MW) pilot plant that should be operational by 2015.
This spring, Ellsaesser and DLC senior veterinarian Bobby Schopler collaborated with a local small animal dental practice and an on-campus 3-D printing lab to create a life-size model of their patient's lower mandible (jawbone).
The developers of ToxRAP continue to expand the program, and are currently collaborating with an NIEHS small business grantee to create interactive activities to enhance ToxRAP's utility in the classroom, and to make it available to students and their families at home.
COSIA is also collaborating with Prize Capital, a small California company that provides early-stage capital to startups; with Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, a Colorado-based coal-burning power generator that has financed research into carbon recycling; and with the X-Prize Foundatisn, which is developing a prize for carbon capture and reuse.
