The Small Business Innovation Research Program: Challenges and Opportunities

by Technology and Economic Policy, Board on Science, National Research Council, et al.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309061989
• ISBN13: 9780309061988
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 186 Pages