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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: U. S. Government Printing Office (Gpo)
Publisher: BiblioGov
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781289374631
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of the U.S. federal government based in Washington D.C. The office prints documents produced by and for the federal government, including Congress, the Supreme Court, the Executive Office of the President and other executive departments, and independent agencies. A hearing is a meeting of the Senate, House, joint or certain Government committee that is open to the public so that they can listen in on the opinions of the legislation. Hearings can also be held to explore certain topics or a current issue. It typically takes between two months up to two years to be published. This is one of those hearings.
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: B. K. Dennis
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 5
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This paper discusses steps taken by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) to strengthen small business participation in DoD extramural R & D, indicates a need for explicit attention to information transfer requirements by R & D contract administrators and concludes with a suggestion to the DoD contract administration community. Many factors impede small business efforts to do R & D business with the federal government. These run the gamut from federal procurement policies, regulations, and procedures; beliefs, biases, and practices of federal R & D people and their management systems; and the formidable advantages of bigness in the federal marketplace. Information transfer issues exacerbate the impacts of all the above and further reduce small business capabilities to compete for and to perform federal agency-- particularly DoD--R & D projects. The studies and testimony leading to the Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982 indicated a need for change in federal agency approaches to R & D contracting. DTIC's approach has been to mitigate the impacts of information transfer barriers on small R & D firm efforts to do business with DoD. (Author).
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2016-01-17
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0309311969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2014-09-30
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 0309306590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Created in 1982 through the Small Business Innovation Development Act, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program remains the nation's single largest innovation program for small business. The SBIR program offers competitive awards to support the development and commercialization of innovative technologies by small private-sector businesses. At the same time, the program provides government agencies with technical and scientific solutions that address their different missions. SBIR at the Department of Defense considers ways that the Department of Defense SBIR program could work better in addressing the congressional objectives for the SBIR program to stimulate technological innovation, use small businesses to meet federal research and development (R & D) needs, foster and encourage the participation of socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses, and increase the private sector commercialization of innovations derived from federal R&D. An earlier report, An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program at the Department of Defense, studied how the SBIR program has stimulated technological innovation and used small businesses to meet federal research and development needs. This report builds on the previous one, with a revised survey of SBIR companies. SBIR at the Department of Defense revisits some case studies from the 2009 study and develops new ones, and interviews agency managers and other stakeholders to provide a second snapshot of the program's progress toward achieving its legislative goals.
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Committee focused on a host of concerns, including small business access to affordable health insurance, manufacturing, targeted regulatory reform, the impact and recovery from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, access to capital, and oversight, and the reauthorization of the Small Business Administration (SBA).
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2009-03-27
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0309177308
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships. Founded in 1982, SBIR was designed to encourage small business to develop new processes and products and to provide quality research in support of the many missions of the U.S. government, including health, energy, the environment, and national defense. In response to a request from the U.S. Congress, the National Research Council assessed SBIR as administered by the five federal agencies that together make up 96 percent of program expenditures. This book, one of six in the series, reports on the SBIR program at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and finds that the program is making significant progress in achieving the Congressional goals for the program. Keeping in mind NASA's unique mission and the recent significant changes to the program, the committee found the SBIR program to be sound in concept and effective in practice at NASA.. The book recommends programmatic changes that should make the SBIR program even more effective in achieving its legislative goals.
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2016-01-28
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 030937877X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs provide federal research and development funding to small businesses. In 2008, the National Research Council completed a comprehensive assessment of the SBIR and STTR programs. The first-round study found that the programs were "sound in concept and effective in practice." Building on the outcomes from the Phase I study, this second phase examines both topics of general policy interest that emerged during the first phase and topics of specific interest to individual agencies, and provides a second snapshot to measure the program's progress against its legislative goals.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2009-01-29
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0309110866
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The SBIR program allocates 2.5 percent of 11 federal agencies' extramural R&D budgets to fund R&D projects by small businesses, providing approximately $2 billion annually in competitive awards. At the request of Congress, the National Academies conducted a comprehensive study of how the SBIR program has stimulated technological innovation and used small businesses to meet federal research and development needs. Drawing substantially on new data collection, this report provides a comprehensive overview of the SBIR program at the five agencies representing 96 percent of program expenditure-DOD, NIH, NSF, DOE, and NASA-and makes recommendations on improvements to the program. Separate books on each agency will also be issued.
