The Small Business Innovation Research Program Challenges and Opportunities (1999) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
Panel I: History and Current Legislative Perspective on the SBIR Program
Panel I: History and Current Legislative Perspective on the SBIR Program
Pages 41-51
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 41... ...
He recalled that, when he was a director of administration for NSF's former Research Addressing National Needs program in the Nixon administration, the small-business community approached the Congress out of dissatisfaction over the fact that, despite numer 41
|
From page 42... ...
Because of the sensitivities occasioned by the Golden Fleece Awards that Senator William Proxmire (D-Wis.) was giving out at the time to stigmatize wasteful government spending, Mr.
|
From page 43... ...
Tibbetts cited numerous reasons for his interest in small, high-tech firms beyond his desire to increase their participation in government R&D. As vice president of two such firms for about 12 years and as founder and director of Allied Capital in Washington, he had observed that the cohort of executives of such firms was "possibly the best" that he had ever seen: "You are smart if you are in high technology; you are extremely courageous; you are extremely hard working; you are willing to risk a great deal including your job, because you are confident you can get another one; [and]
|
From page 44... ...
Consequently, if government, which has a great deal of investment in cutting-edge research, could allow small, hightech firms to participate in government research, we would possibly lower the risk with successful research in areas that were acceptable to private investors. And I think this has happened." The evaluation process under Phase I, whose base has risen to $100,000 today, has successfully allowed program managers to establish the validity of firms' ideas.
|
From page 45... ...
and others. She praised the program for serving "an invaluable function": fostering small businesses' participation in meeting federal R&D needs and helping draw private capital investment to their innovative work.
|
From page 46... ...
DISCUSSANT Paul Cooksey Senate Committee on Small Business Personal Perspectives on SBIR Remarking on the presence at the symposium of people associated with the early years of SBIR, including Lee Mercer, a former aide to Senator Warren Rudman (R-N.H.) and now head of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies, Mr.
|
From page 47... ...
Cooksey said that all 18 members of the Senate Committee on Small Business believe in the program and predicted that not a single member of the Senate would oppose renewing it. DISCUSSANT James Turner Minority Counsel House Committee on Science Mr.
|
From page 48... ...
since that controversial program started up in 1990, and it likely amounts to twice the overall funding of another program managed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Manufacturing Extension Partnership. Although it may be "small by budget standards, it's not small by appropriations standards or authorization standards," Mr.
|
From page 49... ...
Should agencies make their research capabilities available to their SBIR awarders? · whether integrating SBIR into the technology transfer programs of its sponsoring federal agencies would help insulate technologies developed by SBIR winners from alleged cream-skimming on the part of foreign interests.
|
From page 50... ...
Mr. Neal noted that the DoD SBIR program has recently instituted a Fast Track pilot program designed to address the problems raised by Mr.
|
From page 51... ...
E Martin Duggan of the Small Business Exporters Association asked whether any data exist that indicate SBIR participants' level of success in international trade.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.