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NOTE: The website is 25 years old and still relevant to SBIR. In particular, the NEWS section is a 25 year history of a long list of companies that played SBIR and have attracted the attention of the American business press. Is SBIR a worthy program? Whether SBIR is a success story and a wise investment of federal R&D funds depends wholly on the mindset of the observer because the necessary financial facts lie wholly in the records of thousands of private companies. And the federal agenies have no equity i
Carl Nelson Consulting helps small high-tech firms with new technology get and use federal government R&D funding for innovations from the Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR). To be eligible you must be (or become) a mostly US-owned for-profit small (under 500 employees) firm doing R&D in the USA. The money is free - no repayment and no equity taken. You propose on a government specified schedule for a small award (Phase I) $100-150K to show feasibility of your idea. If that works, you can pro
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