Specialist searches accessible from this part of the site (detailed below) SBIR-STTR specifics The full complement of SBIR-STTR Awards and Awardee data from every participating agency. Drawn down predominately from available public sources, these are conveniently structured to a common form and format in a single relational database, accurate and up-to-date to most recently announced awards.   Abstracts: the full complement of every Phase I and every Phase II SBIR-STTR award up to, and including, the most recent.   Company Registry: awardees: though a basic Business Profile is provided to include some business condition elements, emphasis is primarily on form and extent of SBIR-STTR participation. Business Condition and Technology Capabilities: These comprehensive data on Awardees are compiled and maintained exclusively by Innovation Development Institute from a range of specialist sources and sophisticated research techniques. Highly proprietary and exclusive to this site, these data are not available for whole SBIR community from any other source. Searchable elements include: Issued Patents: Now approaching a total of more than 61,700 U.S. patents assigned to SBIR Awardees plus international holdings. Licensing: though we are working on it and have some listings, these data are not complete to the full extent of licensing activity involving SBIR Awardees. Show Me The Money: organized around THREE primary areas   Venture Capital: a range of detail re. SBIR-STTR involved firms in receipt of equity financing with some access to those providing that funding. To date almost 1,650 SBIR Awardees are VC with investment from close to 1,800 VC entities.   Mergers and Acquisitions: detail and analysis of the over 1,025 M&A deals involving SBIR-STTR firms   Publicly Traded: interesting look - individually and in the aggregate - at the almost 650 SBIR Awardees which have gone public. NOTE: consistent with the approach throughout this site, focus in these connecting pages is not on "how-to". Rather emphasis is on collective analysis and to trend depiction.

From the very earliest days of SBIR - soon after the first awards were made in the expanded, government-wide SBIR effort during FY 83 - we began systematically to keep the SBIR record in a single, across-all-agency system. These data were subsequently tranferred to a powerful and sophisticated relational database which now include the detail of over 74,250 projects involving almost 17,000 firms. Awardee data now include extensive information on a range of business condition factors and documented technology capabilities. In major part, these data are exclusive to this site.

Awards and Awardee Focus:
Through the early SBIR years, emphasis was primarily on Awards - who was being funded to do what and by whom. Monitoring Awards distribution data continues to be important - particularly as that involves needing ready access to the most recent award listings and Phase II conversions and, for many in federal procurement, getting a handle on the areas of technology interest in the agencies. Hence, for many for whom this tracking is useful, the convenience of being able to do this in a single system that is accurate and complete is the primary reason for regular Site Usage. Those with this interest usually settle on a no-cost/low-cost Individual Account.

Technological Capabilities and Business Opportunities:
Given important structural changes in the economy and the trend towards some variation of the partnering and alliance model of business development across most industry segments, of considerable and growing interest now are the SBIR Awardees themselves - who they are, what they have and, perhaps even more important, what they are capable of doing.

In addition to following the awards money trail, therefore, the major percentage of our time and resources are focused to systematic compilation of various other data - technical achievement, demonstrated technology competencies and a range of business related matters - on all those firms which are, or have previously been, SBIR-involved.

Who are using these more sophisticated search capabilites?
There is growing recognition that among SBIR Awardees are talented (small) firms working on the leading edge of their fields. This makes searching in these elements of our system of considerable interest to those:

in larger firms with technology transfer responsibility, charged with keeping their finger on the pulse of new developments potentially important in their space
seeking potential collaborations with some of these firms
OR - particularly for SBIR Awardees - simply wanting to keep track on the competition
in the financial and professional services community concerned with monitoring technology trends and identifying potential business opportunities

These Site Users are usually opting for a Corporate Account.

Specialist Search Capabilities: by Subscription Type
On-site searching is only one component of a Site Account, particularly for those holding Advanced Individual and Corporate Accounts. For those serious about the Business of SBIR, perhaps as important as the capacity to search are the extensive posting and retrieval capabilities, targeted consultations, along with automatic notifications, specialist reporting capabilities and off-line service discounts.
Type of Data		Individual	Corporate	Notes
Checkmark indicates who can conduct in-system searches in that data-type. Note: even where searchability is not an option - primarily in the Technological Capabilities and Business Opportunities areas - all Registered System Users (no-cost or paying) can fully view all Lead Pages (fluted) to each section and the very useful analyses they provide.
Award Abstracts				Fully searchable by all Registered Site Users. Primary distinction between Individual and Corporate is ease of use - menu-driven versus custom and keyword searches.
Company Registry: Awardees				With focus on extent and form of SBIR participation, distinction between Indivdual and Corporate lies primarily in ease of use; extent of yield - no-cost registrants can only view a limited number of results from their search; capacity to keyword search; and manner in which data can be retained in My Work Area. The latter are Corporate Account services.
Issued Patents		N/A		Re. search function, primary distinction between Corporate Member and that of the Associate and Principal Accounts lies in the detail by which search can be undertaken in each of these specialist areas. For example, the capacity to keyword search in Patents; and the ability to search the detail of VC Investors are available only to Associates and Principals. All Corporate Accounts include the useful, on-site My Work Area.
	Venture Capital	N/A
	M&A transactions	N/A		The major distinction between the THREE types of Corporate Account lies primarily in the extent of supplementary benefits re. number of licenses; posting capacities; pro-active notifications; discounts and other custom report prpeparation and analytical services.
	Publicly traded	N/A