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Newt Gingrich recently wrote an editorial in the WSJ [subscription required] calling for greater use of prizes to solve the world’s problems. Regardless of what you think about Newt’s politics, it’s difficult to deny that the current grants-based process of funding science isn’t meeting our needs. Grants are too risk-averse and too [...]

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Choices & FY2006 Data from the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases has some great advice for National Institutes of Health (NIH) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applicants on choosing an “institute and center” (IC) and requesting a budget. The key takeaways are:

Each IC’s success rate varies dramatically from year to year. So [...]

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