The Small Business Innovation Research Program

The First Decade

• Author(s): United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Exploratory Research. Small Business Innovation Research Program,
• Publisher: DIANE Publishing
• Pages: 313
• ISBN_10: 1568064276
  ISBN_13: 9781568064277
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Small Business , Technology & Engineering / Industrial Technology ,

Description:... The SBIR Program today is widely regarded as an effective facilitator of small business innovation, as a driving force behind technological advance, and as a mechanism through which the Federal Government can multiply the return on its $70-billion-per-year investment in R&D. Studies indicate that small business procude about twice as many innovations per employee as large companies. Roughly one in four SBIR projects result in the development and sale of a new commercial product -- a very high ratio in the risky R&D business. Graphs and charts.