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| Searching within this Database of SBIR-STTR Issued Patents |
 The capacity to SEARCH online across full inventory of patents issued to SBIR-STTR involved firms is a specialist online service available ONLY to those holding a PRINCIPAL Corporate Account.
Those holding other Corporate Accounts may retrieve some Patent related information specific to particular awardees from with Company Profiles maintained in the Company Registry area. |
How is this SBIR-STTR
patent data compiled? |
To set in context the extent of SBIR-STTR Awardee patent activity; the number of patents issued annually to these firms now greatly exceeds that of- the entire population together of U.S. academic institutions. See Figure I. and
- even of IBM - ever the largest single recipient of U.S. issued patents
Yet, thinking about SBIR-STTR Awardees as an extraordinary concentration of technical talent and capability and providing the context to support drawdown of the potential value of what they have created - Intellectuals Assets - is seriously lagging behind that of the universities and larger corporations.
Doing something about that is an increasingly import- ant offline focus of the Innovation Development Institute (idi). As part of that effort, this part of the site draws down on the only available compilation of all issued patents (foreign and domestic) to SBIR-STTR involved firms Developed entirely with idi company resources, this database - and the interesting analyses it makes possible - is a useful and important step towards setting in context and documenting the sheer scope and scale of the SBIR-STTR achievement.
| Relevant Patent Graphics: |
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| Figure I: Tracking Total Patent Issuance by and US Academic Institutions 1983-2003Figure II: Tracking patents issued to SBIR-STTR-involved firms against all U.S. patents and those issued to U.S. firms 1983-2003Figure III: Percentage of SBIR-STTR involved firms actively patenting 1983-2003 - by State |
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| Figure IV: Distribution of SBIR- STTR Dollars to actively Patenting Awardees versus those without issued patents 1983-2004Table I: Comparing the extent of SBIR-STTR activity among patenting awardees versus those holding no patentsTable II: Extent of Patent Issuance Activity among SBIR-STTR Involved Firms 1983-present |
| The Challenge: |
To draw down the value of what these SBIR-STTR Awardees own. |
| The impact: |
Regionally and nationally - it could be huge! |
| $25-30 Billion |
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It is our estimate that the current potential value of the collective Intellectual Asset base of SBIR-STTR involved firms is in excess of $25-30 Billion... a base which if realized -- even in part -- truly represents - an extraordinary ROI on the federal investment
- and - even more critically - a major business development capital injection in the firms involved and where they do business.
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Relevant Patent Graphics
Issued patents are commonly used as a marker of technology development potential and achievement both in individual entities and by groups. To that extent, examining patent activity among SBIR-STTR involved firms is highly informative and very interesting. The discussion and related graphics here are preliminary indicators of some of our more extensive findings - Reflecting important shifts in the structure of the US Labor Markets, in the mid-nineties, SBIR-STTR Awardees overtook US academic institutions in terms of the number of issued patents annually achieved. As Figure I shows, the rate of patenting by U.S. universities has somehat flattened out in recent years. By contrast, the number and scope of patent issuance by SBIR-STTR involved firms continues to climb steadily. MORE firms are patenting AND the number of patents being sought by firms is increasing.
- Consistent with that condition, Figure II shows that the extent of SBIR-STTR Awardee patenting activity is increasing more steeply than among any other segment of the filing population.
- Broken out by State, Figure III provides a useful indicator of the extent to which awardees in particular states are receiving patents. Analyzed in considerably more detail elswhere, it is interesting to note that the States one might expect to be active in this regard indeed are high in the rankings. However, the notion that you can't trade any asset unless you clearly own it is also evident in some states which are far less SBIR rich.
For several states already, we have prepared a highly detailed analysis of the extent and form of SBIR-STTR activity in that geographic area with some useful comparative data. If you are interested in this type of semi-customized analyses, please contact us Major findings: Outstanding among these is clear evidence that Awardees which are actively patenting are generally doing far better in SBIR-STTR than those which are not. - Patenting awardees consistitute slightly more than 29 percent of all awardees. With a better repeating award rate and a significantly better Phase II conversion rate, Patenting Awardees are in receipt of almost 60 percent of the total SBIR-STTR dollars. See Figure IV. Using data as of August 2004, these data alone are very powerful indicators that SBIR-STTR is likely funding the best and the brightest.
- Over the life of the program, the data shows that patenting firms have received over THREE awards for every ONE by non-patenting firms - see Table 1. Further, the trend is clear that among those firms which are currently active, the success rates are actually improving such that patenting firms are now receiving close to FOUR awards for every ONE by non-patenting
- Finally Table II shows this phenomenon is not that of a large numbers of firms receving a handful of patents. This is clearly - as it should be - a business activity central to the business strategy of the firm.
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