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SBIR at the National Science Foundation (Paperback)
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SBIR at the National Science Foundation (Paperback)
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The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the
largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was
established in 1982 to encourage small businesses to develop new
processes and products and to provide quality research in support
of the U.S. government's many missions. The U.S. Congress tasked
the National Research Council with undertaking a comprehensive
study of how the SBIR program has stimulated technological
innovation and used small businesses to meet federal research and
development needs, and with recommending further improvements to
the program. In the first round of this study, an ad hoc committee
prepared a series of reports from 2004 to 2009 on the SBIR program
at the five agencies responsible for 96 percent of the program's
operations-including the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Building on the outcomes from the first round, this second round
presents the committee's second review of the NSF SBIR program's
operations. Public-private partnerships like SBIR are particularly
important since today's knowledge economy is driven in large part
by the nation's capacity to innovate. One of the defining features
of the U.S. economy is a high level of entrepreneurial activity.
Entrepreneurs in the United States see opportunities and are
willing and able to assume risk to bring new welfare-enhancing,
wealth-generating technologies to the market. Yet, although
discoveries in areas such as genomics, bioinformatics, and
nanotechnology present new opportunities, converting these
discoveries into innovations for the market involves substantial
challenges. The American capacity for innovation can be
strengthened by addressing the challenges faced by entrepreneurs.
Table of Contents Front Matter Summary 1 Introduction 2 NSF and Its
SBIR Program 3 SBIR Awards at the National Science Foundation 4
Commercial and Knowledge Outcomes 5 The Phase IIB Program 6
Insights from Case Studies and Extended Survey Responses 7 Findings
and Recommendations Appendixes Appendix A: Overview of
Methodological Approaches, Data Sources, and Survey Tools Appendix
B: Major Changes to the SBIR Program Resulting from the 2011 SBIR
Reauthorization Act, Public Law 112-81, December 2011 Appendix C:
2011 Survey Instrument Appendix D: 2010 Phase IIB Survey Instrument
Appendix E: Case Studies Appendix F: Bibliography
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