RTI International’s study of small businesses in STEM fields looks specifically at gaps in business performance and commercialization outcomes among minority entrepreneurs (e.g. non-white minorities, women). This study uses data from firms receiving Phase II funding from federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programs to understand gaps in innovative behaviors of minority-owned and female-owned businesses. Given that the goal of the SBIR program is commercialization of a funded technology, commercialization is the focal outcome variable of this study. The research design incorporated uses an econometric model of the probability of commercialization as a function of the minority/gender ownership of the business, in addition to other owner and business characteristics.