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Federal Research: The Small Business Technology Transfer Program

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date May 22, 1997
Report No. T-RCED-97-157
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Summary:

The Small Business Technology Transfer Pilot Program and the Small Business Innovation Research Program share similar goals: to emphasize the benefits of technological innovation and the ability of small business to translate the results of research and development into new products. The first program differs from the second primarily in requiring a company to form a partnership with a nonprofit research institution. This testimony is based on a January 1996 report (GAO/RCED-96-19) on the Small Business Technology Transfer Pilot Program that discussed the (1) quality and commercial potential of research proposals, (2) steps taken to avoid the conflict of interest that would arise if a party both submitted and evaluated program proposals, and (3) effect of and need for the program.

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