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Small Business Innovation Research: Agencies Need to Strengthen Efforts to Improve the Completeness, Consistency, and Accuracy of Awards Data.

Publication: General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony
Publication Date: 01-DEC-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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GAO-07-38 October 19, 2006

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program was created to increase the use of small businesses to meet federal research needs and commercialize the results of this research. To monitor the program, the Small Business Administration (SBA) requires to a...

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...participating agencies provide, in standard format, specific data on all SBIR awards they make. SBA then compiles these data into a database known as Tech-Net. Congress also required SBA to create, by 2001, a restricted and more comprehensive database that would provide information for government agencies to use in...

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