The Small Business Innovation Research Program Challenges and Opportunities (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Wessner introduced the day's activities as the first element in a program examining "Government-Industry Partnerships for the Development of New Technologies." Being carried out under the aegis of the National Research Council's Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy (STEP Board) , direct responsibility for the meeting effort rests with a distinguished steering committee chaired by Gordon Moore, chairman emeritus of Intel Corporation; its membership includes Mark Myers, senior vice president of Xerox Corporation, leading our discussion today; William Spencer, chairman of SEMATECH; Gordon Binder, chairman of Amgen; Kenneth Flamm, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and a speaker at the symposium; and other distinguished academics and industrialists.
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Wessner challenged the participants to "name one major, export-oriented industry in the United States that has not received very substantial assistance through its growth period from the government." Although it takes many forms some direct, some indirectsupport for industry has pervaded the economy, especially in high-growth, hightechnology sectors as semiconductors, computers, telecommunications, and aircraft. American markets are among the world's most dynamic, with levels of competition and innovation that have proved to be the source of remarkable economic growth.
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Wessner said that he had left "impressed and encouraged about what the unique blend of American capitalism and supportive government policies has to offer" the next generation of Americas and the world.
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program, extending particular recognition to White House representatives Dorothy Robyn of the National Economic Council and Duncan Moore of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
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Dr. Myers pointed to the presence of such "expert practitioners" as Carl Nelson, formerly of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, on the panel titled "Program Challenges Operational Views," to be led by Dan Hill, the Small Business Administration's Assistant Administrator for Technology.
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Myers said that he looked forward to a "rich exchange of views." He then introduced Dr. Moore, the Associate Director of Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, noting that the two have known one another for many years as fellow residents of Rochester.
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He noted the fading of the conventional wisdom of a half-decade ago that "the United States was great at basic science we won the Nobel prizes but Japan was much better at taking these ideas to product." This has changed. Although economic difficulties in Japan may account for part of the change, another reason is that U.S.
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He recalled turning to the program in the technology development stage, after finding neither venture capitalists nor banks willing to back a firm without a product. A New York State program that offered funding to help winners of Phase I SBIR grants bridge the gap to Phase II made the SBIR program more attractive to Dr.
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Moore noted that a tax credit would have been of no value to his firm, which was not generating profit and "needed the cash flow" to make payroll; and Universities versus SBIR: Opposition from academics who see money that goes to SBIR as reducing funds available for their research was characterized by Dr. Moore as "very short sighted." SBIR grants offer professors and students an "ideal" opportunity for spinning off a company, and the university community should be looking at the program in a positive light "as part of economic development."2 Employment Generation: Dr.
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Moore welcomed this effort to review the program, noting that "every program can benefit from continuous improvement," a principle he called "part of the business climate today."
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