Extent of this State's SBIR-STTR
participation over life of program
Award-related data
Awards
Phase I
Phase II
4302
1840
Total Award Dollars 1983-current
$2,040,408,494
Number Awardees
2,271
Current SBIR-STTR Activity Level
Awards (last 5yr)
Phase I
Phase II
484
246
Award Dollars
$393,253,139
Current Awardees
346
External business factors by State Awardees
Publicly Traded
91
M&A Deals
378
VC Funded Firms
332
Total US issued patents
35,443
In DOD and NIH particularly, Phase II may be on Phase I awards made three-four years earlier. The comprehensive SBIR tracking system developed and rigorously maintained by the Innovation Development Institute is project-grounded. All related Phase IIs are tracked by relevance to original Phase I i.e. in a single record. As applicable - for example in NIH and some DOD - Phase II awards dollars are recorded incrementally in our offline systems but posted online by total to date.
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Note: Phase II awards may be incrementally funded. Hence, downturn indicated by this graph is not an error nor a major drop-off of SBIR funding availability. As Phase II awards are made - almost 3/4 of all dollars - steepness of this curve will increase substantially.