Welcome Back Senators! We hope you enjoyed your recess.
There is buzz that SBIR may make it on to the Senate calendar this session, but we do not have a definite date just yet. Stay tuned!
This act will increase access to early-stage funding for treatments and cures for debilitating diseases. With so many new treatments [...]
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The Senate Small Business Committee has passed an SBIR reauthorization bill. We hope the House and Senate will work together to pass a final reauthorization bill before this program is set to expire on September 30, 2008.
From the Puget Sound Business Journal:
Under a compromise negotiated in the U.S. Senate, small companies that are majority-owned [...]
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The Times-Standard had a great piece over the weekend discussing when and how the Government gives away “free money.” The authors debunk these myths. They also discuss the very real grant process that funds innovative new technologies.
They list and answer these myths:
Myth no. 1: Grants are cash money to start businesses. The government will give [...]
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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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CNN Money has a great piece describing the variety of projects that compete for and receive competitive SBIR funds – from sticky medical devices and anti-virus computer programs to creative recycling of (cow) waste. The SBA office of Technology oversees this project of the federal government as a way to fund the early, innovative ideas [...]
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