Series II. 1980 White House Conference on Small Business/National Council for Small Business Innovation, 1979-1980
Scope and Content
The Small Business Innovation Research Program Records contain the institutional records of the organization and the personal records of Arthur S. Obermayer. The collection is broadly organized along the lines of “who did what”: Series I concerns the contributions of Arthur S. Obermeyer; Series II concerns the activities of the National Council for Small Business Innovation (NCSBI); Series III concerns the contributions of U.S. Senator Edward “Ted” M. Kennedy (Democrat-Massachusetts), who became the program’s foremost congressional champion; Series IV concerns the SBIR Act and its accompanying legislation, the Bayh-Dole Patent Act; Series V-VI provide the background to the legislation that was finally produced and to deal with the problem of economic conversion in the wake of the Vietnam War. The collection is arranged into the following seven series:
- Arthur S. Obermayer
- 1980 White House Conference on Small Business/National Council for Small Business Innovation
- Small Business Innovation Research and National Science Foundation/Bayh-Dole Patent Act
- Federal Legislation/Policy Documents
- Economic Conversion
- U.S. and Massachusetts Government Response
- Arthur S. Obermayer Addenda
Dates
- Creation: 1979-1980
Series Description
Milton Stewart, Chief Council for Advocacy at the Small Business Administration, instituted this council for the purpose of promoting the National Science Foundation’s SBIR Program to members of Congress with the ultimate goal of making it a government-wide program. He also organized the White House Conference on Small Business which was held on March 13, 1980.
This series contains the White House Conference on Small Business/National Council for Small Business Innovation files of the Small Business Innovation Research Program Records. Arranged in its original order, this series consists of fourteen files in Box 2. These files contain the following materials about the 1980 White House Conference on Small Business National Council for Small Business Innovation (NCSBI): NCSBI lists, administrative documents, and Articles of Incorporation; reprints, notes, and correspondence regarding displeasure with the Carter Administration; testimony, correspondence, and copies of U.S. Senate Bill S.1860 about the Small Business Innovation Act of 1979 and U.S. House Resolution 5607 about the Small Business Innovation Act of 1980; a report to the U.S. President entitled “America’s Small Business Economy”; and materials about the White House Conference on Small Business.
Repository Details
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