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Series VI. U.S. and Massachusetts Government Response, 1970-1997

 Series
Identifier: VI

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: 1970-1997

Series Description

This series contains the U.S. and Massachusetts Government Response files of the Small Business Innovation Research Program Records. Arranged in its original order, this series consists of twenty-one files in Box 6. These files contain materials about U.S. congressional hearings on economic conversion, speeches and correspondence from Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Democrat-Massachusetts), testimony given by Arthur S. Obermayer before the U.S. Senate Small Business Committee, a typescript of an interview with Obermayer; correspondence and a copy of the mission statement of the National Council for Industrial Innovation (NCII), and news articles, press releases, congressional records, correspondence, position papers, and notes about the Small Business Innovative Research Program.

Repository Details

Part of the Science History Institute Archives Repository

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