Federal program managers who hand out $2.5 billion annually to small companies looking to commercialize their innovations will be in Portland on Tuesday, offering insights into the ins and outs of the process — and one-on-one meetings. Seventy-two Oregon companies won awards totaling $27.1 million in 2017 through the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. Some examples include Gadusol Laboratories, which snared $225,000 to help it develop a nontoxic…