Advocates for small businesses and the U.S. research community are once again at loggerheads over pending legislation to expand a multibillion-dollar federal program that promotes commercialization of academic research. It’s shaping up as another long, hard fight: Science lobbyists are playing catch-up but have time on their side, while small business leaders say they don’t understand why more academics aren’t in their corner.
Image: A federal small business research grant helped the Ocean Renewable Power Company of Anchorage, Alaska, develop this floating generator, which produces electricity from river currents. Ocean Renewable Power Company
