Series III. Small Business Innovation Research and National Science Foundation/Bayh-Dole Act, 1971-2006, undated
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: 1971-2006, undated
Series Description
Although the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program became a government-funded program, there was still concern about the apportionment of National Science Foundation (NSF) funding to private entrepreneurs as opposed to universities. U.S. Senate Bill S.1860, the Small Business Innovation Act of 1979, which provided for both the SBIR Program and the Bayh-Dole Patent Act, protecting the rights of small innovators working for government agencies, became the small business owners’ preferred piece of legislation and eventually became law despite stiff opposition from the academic community.
This series contains the Small Business Innovation Research and National Science Foundation/Bayh-Dole Act files of the Small Business Innovation Research Program Records. Arranged in its original order, this series consists of thirty-five files in Box 3. The contents of the files are arranged into the following two sub-series:
- Small Business Innovation Research and National Science Foundation
- Bayh-Dole Patent Act
Repository Details
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