Helping the Little Guy: the impact of government awards on small technology firms
Helping the Little Guy: the impact of government awards on small technology firms
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10.2139/ssrn.3054809
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2019-11
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Aleksandar Giga;Alexandra Graddy-Reed;A. Belz;R. Terrile;F. Zapatero
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作者：
Aleksandar Giga;Alexandra Graddy-Reed;A. Belz;R. Terrile;F. Zapatero
小企业创新研究（SBIR）计划为员工人数不超过500人的公司提供联邦资助的研究奖励。我们探讨了美国国家航空航天局SBIR计划对不同规模的公司未来的专利活动的不同影响。使用倾向得分匹配，我们构建了选定和非选定的第二阶段SBIR申请人的公司规模的可比样本。然后，我们估计选择匹配的样本的影响，对未来的专利活动的概率和条件的任何未来的专利，专利数在三年内的建议。虽然员工少于10人的公司申请专利的可能性最小，但获得第二阶段奖励对他们申请专利的可能性产生积极影响。我们发现稀疏的证据，相应的增加较大的公司。我们也没有发现任何证据表明第二阶段的奖励会影响奖励后三年内有条件的远期专利数量。这些数据表明，第二阶段的奖励有助于推动最小的团队“越过驼峰”，创造竞争优势的潜在来源。
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program provides federally funded research awards to companies with 500 or fewer employees. We explore the differential effects of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR program on firms of various sizes on their future patenting activity. Using propensity score matching, we construct comparable samples of selected and non-selected Phase II SBIR applicants by firm size. We then estimate the effect of selection for the matched sample on the probability of forward patent activity and conditional on any forward patenting, the count of patents within three years of the proposal. While firms with fewer than 10 employees, are least likely to patent, their probability of patenting is positively affected by receiving a Phase II award. We find sparse evidence of corresponding increase for larger firms. Nor do we find any evidence that a Phase II award impacts the conditional number of forward patents in the three years following the award. These data suggest that the Phase II award serves to advance the smallest teams "over the hump" to creating a potential source of competitive advantage.