SBIR – n or adj: Small Business Innovation Research, the name of a U.S. federal government grant program administered by the Small Business Administration (SBA) that provides funding solely to small, for-profit businesses to develop and commercialize certain technologies. (For more information, see www.sba.gov/sbir).

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