National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Program (sbir)
Phase I: Up to $30,000 may be awarded for six months of applied research to prove or disprove the feasibility of the proposed project. Phase II: Awa... Read story
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How Two R&D Programs Can Work For Small Companies
Aug 1, 1981
The National Science Foundation's Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR) and the Defense Department's Small Business Advanced Technology progra... Read story
Congress Hears -- And Forwards -- A Message
By Milton D. Stewart | Sep 1, 1981
Eighty-one United States senators have joined to sponsor (not just vote for) a "Small Business Innovation Research Act of 1981." We have previously report... Read story
How Two R&D Programs Can Work For Small Companies
Aug 1, 1981
The National Science Foundation's Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR) and the Defense Department's Small Business Advanced Technology progra... Read story
Stanley Mason Is Growing Oil On Trees
Entrepreneurs like Mason are solving our "insolvable" problems. Read story
Stanley Mason Is Growing Oil On Trees
Entrepreneurs like Mason are solving our "insolvable" problems. Read story
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Jul 1, 1981
Small business innovation research bills have been introduced in both houses of Congress. They would require all federal agencies whose research and deve... Read story
Small Business Innovation: The Need Is Critical, The Time Is Now
By Milton D. Stewart | Aug 1, 1981
"In the past 15 years of economic turbulence small business has proved more flexible and adaptable than the giant corporations. Small companies have provided... Read story
How Our Nation Can Compete Again
By Milton D. Stewart | Aug 1, 1981
Technology entrepreneurs will lead the way. Read story
Grants for Rural Biz
By Amy Gunderson | Sep 1, 2003
States with lots of farms and fields are making more grants available to businesses. Read story
New! Improved! Manufacturing
By Craig R. Waters | Jan 1, 1986
Suddenly, the shop floor is where the action is. Read story
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program
The Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) is the federal government's most important research and development funding program for small busine... Read story
Future Computing
By Gary A. Taubes | Jun 15, 1997
The ultimate business software is here, but you'll have to wait about 10 years to run it. Read story
Give Government Research Back To Entrepreneurs
By Richard S. Morse | Aug 1, 1982
Federal research laboratories have no business working on gas heaters, solar power, or other programs that compete directly with the private sector. Read story
Small Business -- And The Nation -- Win A Very Big One
By Milton D. Stewart | Sep 1, 1982
What is the most important piece of small business legislation yet enacted in our life-time? My vote goes to the Small Business Innovation Development Ac... Read story
Why Bureaucrats Avoid Small Business R & D
Aug 1, 1981
As a rule, the federal government doesn't like to do business with small companies, for reasons that are not hard to understand if you're the government e... Read story
Q
By Milton D. Stewart | Feb 1, 1982
1. Why do its supporters call the Small Business Innovation Act "an urgent national need?" Sen. Warren Rudman (R-N.H.) led a brilliantly successful... Read story
Fed Innovation Agency Proposed
By Alexandra Zendrian | Apr 28, 2008
Trade and policy groups are urging the government to take a bigger role in boosting U.S. innovation. Read story
Research Not Being Applied to Innovations
By Jena Wuu | Aug 24, 2005
August 24, 2005 --Universities are not applying their research on industrial innovations to their full potential, claims a study from the ... Read story
Business Leaders to Measure Innovation
By Alexandra Zendrian | Jan 31, 2008
A federal and private-sector partnership seeks to gauge the impact of innovation on the U.S. economy. Read story
Global Market Tough on Clothing Firms
By Laura Palotie | Mar 28, 2008
A study finds smaller U.S. apparel makers struggle to compete with imports. Read story
START-UP NATION: Who's Looking At Start-Ups?
By John Case | May 15, 2001
The birthing of companies is the process by which an economy reinvents and re-creates itself. Read story
The Small Business Innovation Research Program
Oct 1, 1982
What is the Small Business Innovation Research program.? It is a federal program that requires federal agencies and departments to allocate part of their ... Read story
The Small Business Innovation Research Program
Oct 1, 1982
What is the Small Business Innovation Research program.? It is a federal program that requires federal agencies and departments to allocate part of their ... Read story
How to Be a Local, Anywhere
By Pat McGovern | Apr 1, 2007
If you're a leader, lead. When my company explores a new market, I'm the first one off the plane. Read story
Inc.'s Guide to 'Smart' Government Money
By Martha E. Mangelsdorf | Aug 1, 1989
A guide to helping small companies profit from new economic-development programs. Read story
Will SBA Be Kinder to VC Industry?
By Keaton Gray | Jun 5, 2009
New SBA chief counsel for advocacy may open up grants to companies with VC investors, if confirmed. Read story
Nobel Prizes Aren't Enough
By Milton D. Stewart | Jul 1, 1981
Better support of small company R D will help us lead the world in innovative products as well as basic research. Read story
Bringing It All Back Home
By Milton D. Stewart | Jun 1, 1982
When was the last time you took a member of your state legislature to lunch? If you haven't yet, you probably should. Increasingly, if slowly, stat... Read story
There's Gold In Them Thar Hills
By Milton D. Stewart | Jan 1, 1984
For those small companies engaged in technological innovation, the Small Business Innovation Research program can be a rich source of funding. Read story
Video Births the Internet Star
By Jill Hecht Maxwell | Nov 15, 2000
New technologies stand to make Internet video as useful and ubiquitous as the telephone. How will it work for your company? Read story
Overtime
Overtime is work done by hourly employees beyond the regular work hours per week. Any work over forty hours per week for an hourly worker is considered ov... Read story
Research and Development
Research and development (R&D) is a process intended to create new or improved technology that can provide a competitive advantage at the business, indust... Read story
Disaster Cowboys
By Christopher McDougall | Nov 1, 2005
Ed Weingartner chases floods and hurricanes for a living--a good enough living to make him an Inc. 500 CEO. Hurricane Katrina, however, created a bigger mess... Read story
Master of Your Domain
By Mike McLoughlin | Jul 7, 1999
Like any real-world business, the key to a successful Web-based business is getting customers in the door or, more... Read story
E-mail With. . .Nicholas Negroponte
By Jeffrey L. Seglin | Jun 15, 1994
A multimedia expert discusses with 'Inc. Technology's editor how business and technology intersect. Read story
Net Profit
By Phaedra Hise | Oct 1, 1994
An in-depth look at a start-up that offers customers Internet access, shareware and technical support. Read story
Entrepreneurs Can Do Everything Government Can Do, Only Better;
By Eugene Linden | Dec 1, 1984
BY THE TIME HE GOT TO PHOENIX, CHUCK WALBRIDGE HAD DISCOVERED THE PITFALLS, AS WELL AS THE PROMISE, OF PRIVATIZATION. Read story
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