Research & Innovation Services | Headframes Innovation Network
Learn at the Headframes Academy
Faculty First Incubators, Coaching, and Webinars
Entrepreneurship & Translation
Designed for inventors--both faculty and small business owners--our webinars and assistants guide you through the technology translation process to create an early-stage development strategy. Topics include development of meaningful benchmarks, viability, market analysis, patenting, risk assessment, and readiness.
Customized Workshops
We train groups of PIs and research staff. PI activities introduce differentiated principles in research strategies, proposal writing, innovation, and creation of AI thought partners, with peer and expert review. Staff training includes use of AI assistants to facilitate workflow. Both include follow-up support.
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Faculty First Academic Innovation
Students learn better when faculty teach better, and productive faculty supply the innovation pipeline. Schedule a goal-setting meeting for our Education Incubator or work with our academic coach.
Share ideas on innovation, efficiency, and best practices in our members-only academic accelerator.
Accelerator (Members Only)
Subscribers receive access to additional resources, templates, training materials, discussion forums, and 'fully loaded' dynamic AI Assistants related to Research, Classroom Innovation, and Technology Translation.
Preview our AI Assistants, which act as asynchronous "Just in Time' trainers.
Faculty First Research
Our research training draws from core principles, designed to differentiate your idea and communicate value and novelty. Set your goals for the Incubator, schedule a coaching session or red team dossier review, join us for a research webinar, or customize an AI Coach to act as asynchronous 'just in time' tutors on topics related to research strategy and translation.
Technical Nuggets (Short Courses)
Designed for and by our network of experts, our Technical Nuggets provide outcomes-based trainings on
basics, emerging technologies, trends, and new tools. They are co-developed with our educational expert to increase engagement and impact.
See our workshops page for upcoming events or Contact Us to develop a Technical Nugget.
Products and Pricing for Coaching and Training
Develop and Advance Your Ideas
Extend Resources and Capability with Technical Experts
Technical Consultation
Our experts inject deep technical expertise in materials, energy, natural resources, environment, information systems, management, and entrepreneurship. Our services include review of emerging technologies, a comprehensive review of competing technologies, strategy development for new initiatives, process viability assessments, as well as trouble-shooting existing processes for possible improvements. We specialize in supporting small businesses that may not have stand-alone research and development staff and are looking to increase bandwidth to inject new and emerging technologies.
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Research Proposal Development
Research Proposal Development incorporates key principles to better convey impact, value, metrics, milestones, and translational potential to your stakeholders. We will help you to position your ideas, and differentiate your scientific merit, impact, approach, and unique value proposition. Contract full proposal development to a seasoned research administrator and former federal program manager. We also provide team building strategies, partner identification, and suggestion of new funding opportunities. Prices start at $500 per page for technical content creation (minimum $2500) and $150/hour for technical review.
Strategy Development for Translation
Bridge the gap between scientific discovery and practical application. Using cross-agency frameworks and TRL/MRL readiness checks, we clarify your innovation’s value proposition and connect technical novelty to proof points and performance metrics. We assist in identifying key performance parameters, map potential pathways to deployment, and align your project with investor, industry, and agency expectations. Structured evaluation against the Headframes translational rubric provides actionable feedback to strengthen positioning, identify partners, and highlight strategic milestones. Personalized consultation accelerates your research from concept toward commercialization and impact.
Products and Pricing for Technical Consultation and Proposal Development
Launch Your Technology
Strategies and Tools for Innovation
Collaborative Co-Execution
When our technical experts contribute to the planned technical execution of a project, fees will be deferred until award. During development, collaborators will have full access to all Headframes Resources. Deferred fees start at $5000; inquire for collaboration possibilities.
Customize an AI Thought Partner
AI has increased human productivity by a 100-fold. Yet, use of AI in proposal writing risks loss of differentiation. Our Assistants lead you through strategy development for STEM proposals, commercialization, and evaluate relative to stakeholder needs. Schedule a customization session to develop your own AI-RA that is trained for your field. Prices start at $300 for an individualized training to develop of your own AI-RA.
Viability Assessment
We will conduct a screening evaluation of new processes and upgrades, including technical feasibility and readiness, estimated return on investment, supply chain readiness, risk, environmental impact, and sensitivity to likely sociopolitical variabilities. Pricing starts at $2500, and will vary based on your requirements, scope, and timeline.
Products and Pricing for Strategy Development, Viability Assessment, and Co-Execution
Over $70 million in project funds raised for customers.
74% success rate in raising funds for large research initiatives.
Headframes are a Mindset
Headframes symbolize ingenuity and persistence of engineers and innovators. From R1s to a PUI to federal program management, Headframes Founder, Angela Lueking, Ph.D., has spent the past decade mentoring faculty and fostering partnerships. Today, Headframes draws from a network of disciplinary experts to provide informed mentoring, coaching, team building, and research strategy development.