Are foreign companies eligible for Small Business Innovation Research grants?
No. To be eligible for an SBIR grant, a company must have majority ownership by U.S. citizens or permanent resident aliens, and conduct all the research funded by the grant in the U.S. This condition makes subsidiaries of foreign companies ineligible unless they are majority owned by U.S. citizens. For more information on small business funding opportunities, see the NINDS SBIR and STTR Program.
