The Small Business Administration plans to update its data rights policies under the Small Business Innovation Research program in late 2013 or early 2014, the Government Accountability Office says.
Federal agencies whose extramural research budgets exceed $100 million have to operate a SBIR program, where they offer grants to small businesses to commercialize innovative technology. By law, those businesses retain the rights to the data they generate in the performance of a SBIR award for at least four years.
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