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Sub-series 2. Policy Documents, 1967-1979, undated

 Sub-Series

Scope and Content

From the Collection:

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:

From the Collection:
  1. Arthur S. Obermayer
  2. 1980 White House Conference on Small Business/National Council for Small Business Innovation
  3. Small Business Innovation Research and National Science Foundation/Bayh-Dole Patent Act
  4. Federal Legislation/Policy Documents
  5. Economic Conversion
  6. U.S. and Massachusetts Government Response
  7. Arthur S. Obermayer Addenda

Dates

  • Creation: 1967-1979, undated

Sub-series Description

Arranged in its original order, this sub-series consists of eight files in Box 4. These files contain a report from the U.S. Department of Commerce about technological innovation, a congressional hearing before the Advisory Committee on Economic Conversion chaired by U.S. Representative Robert F. Drinan (Democrat-Massachusetts), the Proceedings of the First National Conference and West Coast Conference of the Small Business Administration about “Survival and Growth of the Small R and D Firm,” Arthur S. Obermayer’s address “Industrial Innovation Research-Grantee Conference for the NSF Industrial Program ISPT,” the proceedings of the AAAS Committee on Science, and reports and exhibitions by the Small Business Administration (SBI).

Repository Details

Part of the Science History Institute Archives Repository

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