About Technology Transfer Legislation Posted By : Dr. D.S. Merchant
Posted by admin on February 19th, 2007
Regarding small business innovative research legislation, the Small Business Administration is up for reauthorization in 2008, and in fall 2006 both the Senate and House proposed reauthorization legislation. The Senate bill (S.3778), introduced in the Senate Small Business & Entrepreneurship Committee (SB&E), focuses on SBIR/STTR programs specifically, proposing to gradually increase the set-aside for the SBIR program to “no less than 5%” by 2011 and 0.6% immediately for the STTR program, effectively doubling the funding for both.
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