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... program, provides innovation awards that expand joint venture opportunities for small businesses and nonprofit research institutions. Created in 1982 through the Small Business Innovation Development Act, 1 SBIR remains the nation's largest innovation program for small businesses.
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... foster technology transfer through cooperative R&D between small businesses and research institutions, and (3) increase private-sector commercialization of innovations derived from federal R&D.
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... In particular, STTR is expected to combine the strengths of research institutions and small firms by introducing entrepreneurial skills to high-tech research efforts. This design has sought to assist the transfer of technologies and products from the laboratory to the marketplace.
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... 1. Overall, the university connection is much deeper and richer for STTR awards than for SBIR, and STTR addresses its congressional mandate to stimulate partnerships between small business concerns and research institutions to an extent that SBIR does not.
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... 3. Research institutions have varied views on and approaches to licensing of university intellectual property (IP)
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... The potential partners in an STTR award should consult leading research institutions to learn what templates for royalty and licensing schemes have proven to be most effective and might be adapted for their project. Many different schemes have been used and should be reviewed in the context of the potential project and its participants.
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... 3. The overall impact of these proposed changes should be evaluated in future assessments of the SBIR and STTR programs to determine if they have been effective in strengthening the collaboration between small business concerns and research institutions in the STTR and SBIR programs.


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