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I. Methodology Paper -- 1. Introduction
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program approached its twentieth year of operation, the U.S. Congress requested that the National Research Council (NRC)
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Phase III of the program is often fraught with difficulty for new firms. In practice, agencies have developed different approaches to facilitating this transition to commercial viability; not least among them are additional SBIR awards.11 6For an overview of the origins and history of the SBIR program, see James Turner and George Brown, "The Federal Role in Small Business Research," Issues in Science and Technology, Summer 1999, pp.
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It also called for an assessment by the National Research Council of the broader impacts of the program, including those on employment, health, national security, and national competitiveness.17 Previous NRC Assessments of SBIR Despite its size and tenure, the SBIR program has not been comprehensively examined. There have been some previous studies focusing on specific aspects or components of the program -- notably by the General Accounting Office and the Small Business Administration.18 There are, as well, a limited number of internal assessments of 11NSF, for example, has what is called a Phase II-B program that allocates additional funding to help potentially promising technology develop further and attract private matching funds.
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21 See National Research Council, Small Business Innovation Research: Challenges and Opportunities, C Wessner, ed., Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999.
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25In particular, the objective of the Fast Track study was to compare Fast Track awards and non-Fast Track awards within the DoD SBIR program, in order to determine the efficacy of Fast Track. See National Research Council, The Small Business Innovation Research Program: An Assessment of the Department of Defense Fast Track Initiative, C
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