Small Business Innovation Research Program
Small businesses have increasingly been recognized as a source of innovation, and one way in which the Federal government encourages such innovation is through the Small Business Innovation Research program. SBIR sets aside 2.5 percent of federal agencies'' R&D budgets for R&D grants to small business. Although the program''s budget was nearly $1.2 billion in 1998, SBIR has been subject to relativ...
Small businesses have increasingly been recognized as a source of innovation, and one way in which the Federal government encourages such innovation is through the Small Business Innovation Research program. SBIR sets aside 2.5 percent of federal agencies'' R&D budgets for R&D grants to small business. Although the program''s budget was nearly $1.2 billion in 1998, SBIR has been subject to relativ...
