I take all of these points, esp about failures at DARPA. But having looked closely at the NIH SBIR program (for the NAS studies), I was disappointed by NIH's lack of interest in using the program to assess its own evaluation process, and by the overly academic focus of what should have been a program focused on commercialization. I'm not convinced that business as usual is the only way forward, although creating a new bureaucracy doesn't seem an especially promising approach either. your criticisms are well taken.
I take all of these points, esp about failures at DARPA. But having looked closely at the NIH SBIR program (for the NAS studies), I was disappointed by NIH's lack of interest in using the program to assess its own evaluation process, and by the overly academic focus of what should have been a program focused on commercialization. I'm not convinced that business as usual is the only way forward, although creating a new bureaucracy doesn't seem an especially promising approach either. your criticisms are well taken.
I take all of these points, esp about failures at DARPA. But having looked closely at the NIH SBIR program (for the NAS studies), I was disappointed by NIH's lack of interest in using the program to assess its own evaluation process, and by the overly academic focus of what should have been a program focused on commercialization. I'm not convinced that business as usual is the only way forward, although creating a new bureaucracy doesn't seem an especially promising approach either. your criticisms are well taken.
I take all of these points, esp about failures at DARPA. But having looked closely at the NIH SBIR program (for the NAS studies), I was disappointed by NIH's lack of interest in using the program to assess its own evaluation process, and by the overly academic focus of what should have been a program focused on commercialization. I'm not convinced that business as usual is the only way forward, although creating a new bureaucracy doesn't seem an especially promising approach either. your criticisms are well taken.