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... • As is typical for other private and public technology innovation programs, a relatively few projects have accounted for the majority of sales and licensing revenue from NSF SBIR recipients.45 (For details see Section 5.2.) • Outcomes are Skewed.
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... In recent Senate testimony, a senior program official affirmed that the program's focus has become "the commercialization of research."48 To increase commercialization, the program has taken several steps that represent a change from earlier practice. The program now: • requires a business plan as part of Phase II proposals; • provides commercialization assistance training and networking assistance to award-recipient firms; • uses Phase IIB awards to encourage firms to seek third-party financing and to provide a market test of commercial potential; • designs its solicitation topics to be more in line with industry interests; and • uses more reviewers with business experience in the proposal selection process.
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... a. The Single Award Assumption: Some companies that have received numerous SBIR awards have been criticized as SBIR "mills." Implicit in this criticism is the assumption that one or a few awards should be sufficient for a company to launch a product and become "independent" from the SBIR program.
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... has won SBIRs from multiple agencies for multiple technology areas, including multiple Phase I, Phase II, and Phase IIB SBIR grants from NSF. For every $1 of SBIR funding received, Luna has generated at least $2 in non-SBIR funding.
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... VII. The NSF SBIR program is well run, largely effective at achieving program goals, and has benefited from its strong, centralized management and talented program managers.51 a.
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