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Consistent Criteria Are Needed To Assess Small-Business Innovation Initiatives

PAD-81-15 Published: Jul 07, 1981. Publicly Released: Jul 07, 1981.
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The small-business community has voiced concern that the ability of small businesses to be active in innovation is inhibited by a number of federal policies. Congress has responded with legislation that addresses both the question of declining industrial innovation and the issue of the ability of small businesses to be innovative. GAO developed a comprehensive picture of small-business innovation by showing what influences the environment within which small manufacturing businesses innovate and how these small businesses act as innovators in that environment.

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Congress should use the criteria presented in this report to assess the degree to which proposed initiatives are likely to enhance the conditions that foster innovation by small businesses.
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