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An Assessment of the SBIR Program

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The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program was created in 1982 through the Small Business Innovation Development Act. In 2005, the 11 federal agencies administering the SBIR program disbursed over $1.85 billion dollars in competitive awards to innovative small firms. As the SBIR program approached its twentieth year of operation, the U.S. Congress requested the Na- tional Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies to “conduct a compre- hensive study of how the SBIR program has stimulated technological innovation and used small businesses to meet Federal research and development needs” and to make recommendations with respect to the SBIR program. Mandated as a part of SBIR’s reauthorization in late 2000, the NRC study has assessed the SBIR pro- gram as administered at the five federal agencies that together make up some 96 percent of SBIR program expenditures. The agencies, in order of program size, are the Department of Defense (DoD), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Department of Energy (DoE), and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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: ., 2008

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1-403

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English

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0-309-11087-4

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An Assessment of the SBIR Program

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