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SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PROGRAM (SBIR)

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This highly competitive grant program encourages small businesses to develop new technologies and gives them the opportunity to benefit from commercialization of those technologies. Businesses must meet certain criteria to participate. Ten federal departments and agencies

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