Hopes and Cures

With three weeks remaining before the August recess, time is running short for the Senate to continue to meet regarding the SBIR bill. (NOTE:  the House passed a SBIR reauthorization bill in April). Yesterday the Wall Street Journal ran a piece outlining the debate on who should receive these SBIR grants:  Should a small business that [...]

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We’d like to welcome readers of SBIRGA to our blog.  If you have read our material, you will understand that we remain neutral on the issue of grant amounts.  We do, however, support agency flexibility.  It should be left to the experts to determine what award amounts are appropriate for promising new projects. 
 
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Families USA released its June 2008 study of NIH grants awarded by state.  They conclude that

If the sum of all NIH awards to the states were to increase by 6.6 percent, the national economic benefit would add up to $3.1 billion worth of new business activity, 9,185 additional jobs, and $1.1 billion in new wages

We [...]

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Recently, there was an interesting study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the New England Healthcare Institute, the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, Xconomy and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative on the Massachusetts Life Sciences Super Cluster, showing the value of a strong science sector economically.   This Super Cluster includes Universities, teaching hospitals, biotechnology, medical device, and pharmaceutical companies.  Software, [...]

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Kickstarting Startups with SBIRs

Editor’s Letter: Capital Offense

Stemina Biomarker receives $150,000 SBIR grant

Boulder-based OptTek focuses on workforce

Lt. Governor Fisher announces $2.7 million in Third Frontier grants Eight companies awarded research commercialization funds

The NIH Conference Comes to Atlanta

DOE awards SBIR grant to Athena Biotechnologies for R&D into 10% drop in ethanol processing by developing heat-tolerant bacteria

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Policy
·         Federal Grants for Entrepreneurs May Change
·         SBIR Funding for VC-Owned Firms
 
Awards
·         Lentigen Corporation Receives Four Research Grants From the National Institutes of Health
·         Universal Display Corporation Awarded Phase I SBIR Grant from U.S. Air Force to Design Flexible OLED Display Prototype
·         Arkansas nanotechnology company gets $224,000 from EPA to develop “green” lighting

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Venture-backed firms deserve SBIR grants
Washington Business Journal
Your article “House opens SBIR awards to VC-owned firms” (May 5-11) does an excellent job of discussing the technical aspects of the bill to reauthorize the Small Business Innovation Research program, but it does not say enough about the real-life opportunities it poses — for companies or for patients. [...]

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Washington Business Journal
The House passed legislation that would make small businesses majority-owned by venture capital firms eligible for Small Business Innovation Research awards.
Through the SBIR program, 2.5 percent of the outside research budgets of 11 federal agencies — including the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health — is allocated for small [...]

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The National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship is following the SBIR Debate:

SBIR Bill Advances
A new proposal to reauthorize and modernize the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is making fast progress through Congress. Late last month, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed H.R. 5819, a bill to reauthorize the SBIR program—which directs federal research funds [...]

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Fortune Small Business Volume 18; Issue 3
Funding research to develop cures for life-saving diseases is not a laughing matter, and we shouldn’t be making public policy based on cartoons. Small biotechnology companies, like the innovative and fast-thinking Jerry of the Tom & Jerry cartoon, deserve to succeed, but it’s the Small Business Administration that is [...]

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