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Best Practices in Small-Business Technology Development Programs
Best Practices in Small-Business Technology Development Programs
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Deploying technology in small businesses is a highly effective way to enhance innovation, create jobs, and spur business growth. The Industrial Research and Development Advisory Council has been promoting ways to make the Fifth Framework Programme more accessible to small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
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At the conference lab officials asked representatives from the textile industry to consider ways in which the textile industry and labs could become partners. Issues in Industry-Laboratory Partnerships A key question that laboratory officials posed to representatives from the textile industry was: How important is your industry to the overall economy?
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; make sure that the partnership contributes to the core missions of the public partner; define the benefits for partners at the outset, including intellectual property rights; and capitalize on existing government resources so that government does not expand existing staff or facilities. LABORATORY PARTNERSHIPS WITH INDUSTRY Dan Hartley Sandia National Laboratories Dr.
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Hartley said that a typical nuclear missile contains about 6,000 parts. Sandia makes approximately 5,500 of those parts essentially everything but the nuclear components of a weapon.
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Using computer simulation technology, Sandia was able to assure Japan that a plane could not penetrate the reactor's wall and that a plane crashing into the reactor would be reduced "to powder" rather than cause a nuclear incident. Industry's Role Turning to industry's role in Sandia's mission, Dr.
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Lerner proposed to address in his presentation is the role that public venture capital programs have played in developing clusters of high-technology economic activity in the United States.
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Moreover, public venture capital programs have served as training grounds for private venture capitalists. Many leading figures in the U.S.
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· SBIR awards went to regions with active venture capital sectors, such as California and Massachusetts. · The first few SBIR awards have the strongest impact on job growth, with later awards showing little effect.
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Lerner's strong suspicion was that firms funded by venture capitalists perform better than those funded by SBIR. Venture capital-funded firms undergo strict scrutiny, and only a small fraction of companies seeking venture capital receive it.
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The EC's program to stimulate technology access for SMEs involves three efforts to support SME R&D activity and access: · collaborative research, in which SMEs participate and conduct R&D in a consortium setting using government, university, or private industrial labs (this a share-cost approach by which the EC provides some funding) ; · cooperative research, in which two or more SMEs use EC funds to outsource R&D to a third party; and · exploratory research, in which SMEs are given small grants for earlystage R&D.
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For SMEs receiving exploratory grants, 70 percent reported subsequent success in receiving collaborative research grants based on exploratory work. There has been an increase in the number of SMEs participating in EU research programs.
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Purpose of the SBIR While noting that the broad purpose of the SBIR program is to develop technologies to help meet agency missions, Mr. Baron observed that there are differences across agencies with respect to purpose.
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The Fast Track program has brought a new set of companies into the SBIR program, and Mr. Baron noted the National Research Council is working on a study assessing the program.
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It is one thing for cooperative programs to generate scientific breakthroughs, but it is important for such breakthroughs to be translated into products or processes that help build market share for participants. · Ties with universities.
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