Small Business Innovation in the Public Interest: A Study of the U.S. National Institutes of Health - Hardcover

Link, Albert N.; O’Connor, Alan C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1035330164 ISBN 13: 9781035330164

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2025

Synopsis

This book presents an in-depth investigation into small business research activity supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Albert N. Link and Alan C. O’Connor explain the historical importance of small firms to the NIH and conduct insightful analysis of the Institutes and Centers funded through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

Exploring prominent Institutes within the NIH and using data from the SBIR program, they discuss innovation and social benefits associated with the NIH’s Institutes and Centers. Topics covered include commercialization success, patenting activities of firms, and correlations between diversity measures and various performance metrics. Ultimately, the book delineates the success of the firms that receive awards from the SBIR, and these firms' abilities to support technological development.

Small Business Innovation in the Public Interest is an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and students across health policy and economics, entrepreneurship, biotechnology and innovation. Policymakers working in the health industry will also find the insights into innovation funding beneficial.

About this title

About the Author

Albert N. Link, Professor Emeritus and former Virginia Batte Phillips Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Alan C. O’Connor, Senior Vice President for Environment and Senior Economist, Center for Applied Economics and Strategy, RTI International, USA

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1035330164
• ISBN 13: 9781035330164
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 162