Extent of this State's SBIR-STTR
participation over life of program
Award-related data
Awards
Phase I
Phase II
11847
4838
Total Award Dollars 1983-current
$3,894,603,115
Number Awardees
3,252
Current SBIR-STTR Activity Level
Awards (last 5yr)
Phase I
Phase II
1,171
547
Award Dollars
$755,952,243
Current Awardees
595
External business factors by State Awardees
Publicly Traded
90
M&A Deals
395
VC Funded Firms
305
Total US issued patents
28,187
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.