Leveraging Innovation: The Need to Expand Maryland’s Role in the Federal Small Business Innovation Research Program

October 1990 / Abell Reports / Community Development

The Federal SBIR program is already contributing significantly to the state’s economy. But there’s more in it for the state — if it commits its resources to expanding the program. This report profiles the present program and suggests ways the state can accomplish that expansion. At stake are even more dollars at work in the Maryland economy.