Air Force. The reform seeks to address challenges facing military R&D, in particular a less innovative defense industrial … base. We show that the Open program attracts new entrants, defined as younger firms and those without previous defense SBIR … awards. In a regression discontinuity design that offers the first causal evaluation of a defense R&D program, we show that …

Air Force. The reform seeks to address challenges facing military R&D, in particular a less innovative defense industrial … base. We show that the Open program attracts new entrants, defined as younger firms and those without previous defense SBIR … awards. In a regression discontinuity design that offers the first causal evaluation of a defense R&D program, we show that …