How the US government can fund your company
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Skilled grant writers can help the companies, which have a technology that may be relevant and useful to the government, in acquiring funds from the government for furthering its commercial interests. Biotech entrepreneurs can have access to the government funds by sticking to key strategies, proposing technologies that are useful to the government, writing focused proposals and having extensive communication with the agency officials.
Publication Name: Nature Biotechnology
Subject: Business
ISSN: 1087-0156
Year: 2004
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International patent law--boon or bane of biotech?
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The World Trade Organization's agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) under which inventions are granted exclusive marketing rights for a minimum 20 years for inventive products would be implemented by India, Cuba, Egypt, Pakistan, and Qatar. Before TRIPS, several other countries either excluded medicines from being patented or provided patents only for production processes and not for products.
Publication Name: Nature Biotechnology
Subject: Business
ISSN: 1087-0156
Year: 2005
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Startups hope federal study fixes SBIR flaws
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The US Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, funding small biotech company research, is awarding grants to conservative research and not recruiting adequate numbers of qualified application reviewers. Many startup executives hope that an ongoing federal study exploring the impact of the SBIR program would lead to new legislation to correct these and other deep flaws in the system.
Publication Name: Nature Biotechnology
Subject: Business
ISSN: 1087-0156
Year: 2004
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