Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. It did so by building a national network of a 1,000+ Productivity Promotion Centers. government’s SBIR and STTR programs. Innovation Clusters. Technology Business Incubators (TBIs).

Programming 280

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 280

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. It did so by building a national network of a 1,000+ Productivity Promotion Centers. government’s SBIR and STTR programs. Innovation Clusters. Technology Business Incubators (TBIs).

Programming 172

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 172

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I'll add one more point: The SBIR program is based on a dated notion of small business research, and the multi-year process doesn't line up with the speed of many modern startups. In many cases I look at an SBIR and say "how about I just build that and sell it to you when it's done," but that is unrealistic today.

DC 90

DC Washington San Francisco SBIR 90