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An Assessment and Evaluation of the U.S. Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program

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  • Link, Albert

    (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Economics)

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This paper describes the U.S. Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. The legislative history of the program is presented as is a descriptive analysis of the program based on data collected by the National Research Council (NRC) within the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies). The descriptive analysis presented herein is designed to characterize dimensions of an assessment and evaluation of the program. Under the expectation that Congress will request that the NRC conduct an in-depth study of the STTR program in the coming years, a number of suggestions are offered for improvements in the data collected and how they could be analyzed in an effort to ensure that a more complete assessment and evaluation of the program is possible.

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  • Link, Albert, 2022. "An Assessment and Evaluation of the U.S. Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program," UNCG Economics Working Papers 22-8, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:uncgec:2022_008
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    1. Link, Albert N. & Scott, John T., 2011. "Public Goods, Public Gains: Calculating the Social Benefits of Public R&D," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780199729685, Decembrie.
    2. Albert N. Link & John T. Scott, 2013. "Employment growth from public support of innovation in small firms," Chapters, in: Public Support of Innovation in Entrepreneurial Firms, chapter 3, pages 41-64, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    3. Michael J. Hall, 2015. "Public investments in sustainable technology: an evaluation of North Carolina's Green Business Fund," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(5), pages 436-456, July.
    4. Stuart D. Allen & Stephen K. Layson & Albert N. Link, 2013. "Public gains from entrepreneurial research: Inferences about the economic value of public support of the Small Business Innovation Research program," Chapters, in: Public Support of Innovation in Entrepreneurial Firms, chapter 6, pages 105-112, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    Keywords

    Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program; program assessment; program evaluation; program management; small firms; entrepreneurship;
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    JEL classification:

    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
    • M48 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Government Policy and Regulation

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