Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic … entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy : early … the incidence of biomedical entrepreneurship through SBIR and describe some of the characteristics of these individuals …