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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

Technological Capabilities and Business Opportunities: by Subscription Type
For those serious about the Business of SBIR, 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
Capabilities of SBIR Awardees	No-Cost	N/A	Member		Company Capability Statements accepted from a range of SBIR Awardees variously involved in doing what can be judged leading-edge work in their space. It is important to stress that what the firm has accomplished in SBIR - in terms of what technologies have been developed, what business milestones may have been reached - is actually less important than how what that firm has achieved to date is evidence of what they are capable of doing. The focus here is to in-place skills sets and to demonstrated capabilities as much as it is to specific technology accomplishments for possible insertion. Capability Statements are a useful and potentially important Marketing Tool.
	Basic	N/A	Associate
	Advanced		Principal
Technology Needs	No-Cost	N/A	Member		Across all industry segments and technology arenas, an increasing percentage of large and mid-sized firms are instituting an important Technology Seeker function. Often with tie-in to senior management and with substantial departmental involvement, these persons are tasked explicitly to look outside the firm for available technologies, capabilities and skill-sets relevant to addressing current problems and anticipated future needs. Particularly important to SBIR-involved firms, is the fact that many of these Technology Seekers have the authority and the resources to establish effective working relationships with those external sources. Relationships may range from the larger firm being sub-contractor on an SBIR-funded project through contracted R&D; from cross-licensing to project teaming; from facilities sharing and periodic personnel interaction to full-blown collaboration; from investment to full acquisition. In the past, these types of external collaborations have usually engaged the universities, non-profit R&Dfacilities, the federal labs and, on occasion, other large(r) corporation. With SBIR-involved firms increasingly understood as the largest single concentration of technical talent, firms which are activelt engaged in this important small business program are increasingly becoming a major focus of these Technology Seekers
	Basic	N/A	Associate
	Advanced		Principal
Posting of specific needs and requirement	No-Cost	N/A	Member		This area of the site enables our clients to source innovative ideas, technologies, products and services from outside their organizations quickly and inexpensively by making connection between technology needs and capabilities. You can market your technologies here to organizations around the country. You can confidentially seek solutions to your technology needs (not everyone wants to reinvent the wheel) -- and we can help.
	Basic	N/A	Associate
	Advanced		Principal