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Legislative History of the SBIR Program
This chapter provides an overview of the legislative history of the SBIR program along with the Department of Energy (DOE)‘s historical involvement...
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Does NIH select the right healthcare ventures through the SBIR grant program?
One way governments aim to spur entrepreneurship is through providing startup capital to qualified ventures. In the United States, the government...
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Department of Energy and SBIR Data
The data used to examine the testable hypotheses that were formulated through the theoretical model are discussed in this chapter. There is also a...
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Public support for research in artificial intelligence: a descriptive study of U.S. Department of Defense SBIR Projects
We describe public support for AI research in small firms using data from U.S. Department of Defense-funded SBIR projects. Ours is the first...
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Gender and innovation at the US National Institutes of Health
This paper presents a systematic empirical study of covariates associated with the success of NIH Phase I SBIR-funded research projects, where...
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Innovative activity and ethnic dynamics: an exploratory study of homophilic relationships among minority entrepreneurs
Homophily studies have tended to focus on gender and race. Albeit that these comparisons are important, a focus on ethnic group relationships is...
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The transfer of federally funded technology: A study of small, entrepreneurial, and ambidextrous firms
In this paper, we study the technology transfer mechanisms used to protect intellectual property by small, entrepreneurial firms that received Phase...
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Knowledge-based information and the effectiveness of R&D in small firms
AbstractThis paper explores the impact that external sources of information have on the effectiveness of R&D in small, entrepreneurial firms. The...
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Translational research: from basic research to regional biomedical entrepreneurship
This paper examines the effect of translational research on knowledge production and biomedical entrepreneurship across U.S. regions. Researchers...
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A policy mix experiment to promote start-up success: exploratory evaluation of the NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/Industry University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) membership supplement
This paper investigates the outcomes of a policy experiment, the NSF SBIR/IUCRC Membership Supplement, designed to promote the success of small...
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Entrepreneurial universities and the third mission paradigm shift from economic performance to impact entrepreneurship: Germany’s EXIST program and ESG orientation
The proliferation and intensity of modern grand challenges, and the current broad public awareness of them, has resulted in a demand for...
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Hel** the Little Guy: the impact of government awards on small technology firms
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program provides federally funded research awards to companies with 500 or fewer employees. We explore...
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The fountain of knowledge: an epistemological perspective on the growth of U.S. SBIR-funded firms
The premise of this paper is that a basis for firms receiving Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) research awards to develop commercializable...
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PIs and R&D Project Failure: Reflections and Future Research Avenues
The concluding chapter of this monograph begins with a discussion that summarizes how the literature review on principal investigators (PIs) and...
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Principal Investigators and R&D Failure Probability of Innovation Failure in Small Business
Failure in R&D efforts are fairly common and with many factors that contribute to the outcome. This book focuses on the role of principal...
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Development burdens: state contact centers, administrative burden, and economic development policy
Many have studied how technology transfer policies and innovations affect economic growth. Much of that growth comes from small business...
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Acknowledging diversity in knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship: assessing the Brazilian small business innovation research
This article analyzes a policy instrument that nurtures knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The PIPE Program is a...
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Going public with public money
We analyze what we consider to be an unanticipated consequence of the SBIR program, namely, that firms, publicly funded through the SBIR program, are...
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From discovery to commercialization: accretive intellectual property strategies among small, knowledge-based firms
This paper explores the use of publications and patents and their covariates among small, knowledge-based firms pursuing technology...
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Knowledge transfers from federally supported R&D
The purpose of this paper is to identify covariates with publication activity, a form of knowledge transfer, from SBIR publicly funded research. The...