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It is highly competitive--with over a 10:1 ratio of 



proposals to awards 

 Small business has been proven to be the best vehicle for 



commercialisation of laboratory technologies 

 The commercialization component is fundamental to the 



program. 



You have been provided with examples of successful products and 

 services resulting from the SBIR program in past testimony and 

 reports. I'd like to add some new ones that are making 

 significant positive changes in our nation's well being--both 

 economically and socially: 



From NIH: The new cholesterol test advertised on the 



television by Johnson S- Johnson '.vas licensed from an 

 NIH SBIR company. 

 From HSF: A Texas firm, DTM, Inc. has developed a new 

 concept for manufacturing called "Desk Top 

 Manufacturing" that allows companies to design a 

 component on the computer v/orkstation and go directly 

 to a dual-laser rool without paper drawings. This was 

 so revolutionary that the product, initiated in a SBIR 

 Phase I at NSF in 1988, was licensed to, and the 

 company later purchased by, B.F. Goodrich and it now 

 has 100 employees. 

 From MSF: One of the first NSF grants, and one of the first 



