### Question
How is the "Small Business Technology Transfer Program" or "STTR" defined?


### Answer
The term **Small Business Technology Transfer Program" or "STTR** is defined in *15 U.S.C. § 638* as follows -

> a program under which a portion of a Federal agency's extramural research or research and development effort is reserved for award to small business concerns for cooperative research and development through a uniform process having—


(A) a first phase, to determine, to the extent possible, the scientific, technical, and commercial merit and feasibility of ideas submitted pursuant to STTR program solicitations

#### Citation:
  - *15 U.S.C. § 638*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 14A-AID TO SMALL BUSINESS**

