tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770579694794072792.post6556814018934451673..comments2023-02-26T02:43:39.013-06:00Comments on The SBIR Coach's Playbook ®: Conferees: Please Don't Harm the SBIR Program- Fred Patterson -http://www.blogger.com/profile/11611001882358615220noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-770579694794072792.post-34276169177716505032009-07-17T19:30:33.989-05:002009-07-17T19:30:33.989-05:00Some good questions and some worthy ideals, Fred. ...Some good questions and some worthy ideals, Fred. But a few quibbles:<br /><br />1. No jobs are created. Every SBIR dollar is taken from some other contract that would have been awarded for about the same number of jobs. <br /><br />2. Sure, ROI should be measured. We already have 25 years of data. When do we start and how do we do it? No more lemonade reports on "best practices". <br /><br />3. If it is such a great idea, why wouldn't the agencies do it without a mandate in a way that best fits the agency? Go ahead, put the grand theories of value to the test, make it optional! <br /><br />4. Roland's idea was fine for NSF and NIH that didn't do companies. But the mission agencies knew all about companies, large and small, and their ideas. DOD had standing Broad Agency Announcements that invited innovation, although with no element of commercialization (which DOD pretty much ignores anyway). <br /><br />5. Roland's fine sounding theory that government should have the same ratio of large to small company contracts as private business was nothing but a fine sounding theory. And after 25 years there is still no proof that he was right. If you can't prove your theory with 25 years of data, you should get yourself a new theory. <br /><br />5. "truly worthy project" is in the eye of the beholder. <br /><br />6. Extend SBIR for another year and pay Josh Lerner a pile to invent a worthwhile program. <br /><br />BTW: Hippocrates was a Greek.Carl Nelsonnoreply@blogger.com