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... The Objectives of the Study The objectives of the study are to: Satisfy the Congressional mandate for an objective, external assessment of the program; Provide an empirical analysis of the operations of the SBIR program, in particular rates and sources of commercialization, for agency officials and program managers; Address research questions relevant to the program's operation and evaluation derived from the legislation and that emerge in the course of the study; Develop a rigorous assessment of the program and contribute to Congressional understanding of its multiple objectives, measurement issues, operational challenges, and contributions as described in the legislation. Focus of the Evaluation Following the passage of HR 5667 in December 2000, extensive discussions were held between the NRC and the five leading agencies regarding the scope and nature required to fulfill the Congressional mandate.
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... Consequently, this document suggests a broad framework for methodological approaches that can serve to guide the research team when evaluating each particular agency in terms of the four criteria stated above. Table 1 illustrates some key assessment parameters and related measures to be considered in this study.4 3 See Annex C in this volume.
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... programs? Measures Peer review scores Sales; follow up Patent counts and Agency procurement Publication counts funding; progress; other IP / of products resulting Citation analysis IPO employment growth, from SBIR work number of new technology firms Tools° Case Studies, Agency Phase II surveys, Phase I and Phase II Program Manager Program Studies, Program Manager surveys, Case Surveys, Case Study of Repeat Surveys, Case Studies, Study of Studies, Agency Winners, Bibliometric Studies, Study of Repeat Winners, Program Studies, Analysis Repeat Winners Bibiometric Analysis Study of Repeat Winners Key Research Difficulty of Skew of returns; Measures of actual Major interagency Challenges measuring quality Significant success and failure at differences in use of and of identifying interagency and the project and firm SBIR to meet agency proper reference inter-industry level; Relationship of missions group differences federal and state programs in this context °Supplementary tools may be developed and used as needed.
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