Start, a new $6 million program in Massachusetts, is aimed at providing additional support to technologies that have received Small Business Investment Research II (SBIR) grants and are on a path to private sector commercialization.

We would have assumed that Massachusetts would have felt fairly self-satisfied in having the SBIR process down pat. After all, the state is second in the nation in number of SBIR awards received (18,390 totaling $4.3 billion) since 1983. Massachusetts also reports that more than $3 billion in commercial sales of SBIR technologies have been generated to date.

However, the Bay State thinks there’s more to be gained.

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