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The Small Business Innovation Research Program : challenges and opportunities / Charles W. Wessner, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Compass series (Washington, D.C.)
- The compass series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Small Business Administration. Small Business Innovation Research Program--Congresses.
- United States.
- Research and development contracts, Government--United States--Congresses.
- Research and development contracts, Government.
- Small business--Research--Finance--Government policy--United States--Congresses.
- Small business.
- High technology industries--Research--Government policy--United States--Congresses.
- High technology industries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (186 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- SBIR : challenges and opportunities
- Challenges and opportunities
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Small businesses have increasingly been recognized as a source of innovation, and one way in which the Federal government encourages such innovation is through the Small Business Innovation Research program. SBIR sets aside 2.5 percent of federal agencies' R&D budgets for R&D grants to small business. Although the program's budget was nearly $1.2 billion in 1998, SBIR has been subject to relatively little outside review. As part of the STEP's ongoing project on Government-Industry Partnerships, the Board convened policymakers, academic researchers, and representatives from small business to discuss the program's history and rationale, review existing research, and identify areas for further research and program improvements.
- Contents:
- ""Front Matter""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Welcome""; ""Symposium Introduction""; ""Opening Remarks""; ""Panel I History and Current Legislative Perspective on the SBIR Program""; ""Panel II Research Perspectives on the SBIR""; ""Panel III Case Studies""; ""Luncheon Address""; ""Panel IV Program Challenges�Operational Views""; ""Panel V Improving Assessment and Selection""; ""Panel VI Observations and Policy Issues: Agency Perspectives""; ""Conclusion""
- Notes:
- Summary of a conference held at the National Academy of Sciences on February 28, 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-176).
- ISBN:
- 0-309-17258-6
- 1-282-08184-5
- 9786612081842
- 0-309-52326-5
- 0-585-12628-3
- OCLC:
- 923258419
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