SBIR Program Survives Programmatic Dissolution (With Some Changes)

Bass Berry & Sims – The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, touted as “America’s Seed Fund,” seek to foster a healthy environment for small business startups to innovate and provide a path to private-sector commercialization of new technologies. While the program has enjoyed a fair amount of success with notable companies, it has also been tested by exploitative “SBIR mills” and concerns have grown about the program unwittingly facilitating technological cessation to China.