Useful Stats: 2001 SBIR Phase I Figures by State

SSTI has compiled the 2001 statistics from the ten federal agencies participating in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program to help states gear up for the next round of competition for the Federal and State Technology Partnership and Rural Outreach Programs (FAST and ROP, respectively). SBIR statistics are also used by several states as one measure or indicator for innovation indices and S&T report cards.

For each of the 10 agencies, 50 states, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, the table provides the number of awards, number of proposals, and the award-to-proposal percentage or conversion ratio as a measure of success or futility. SSTI's table of 2001 SBIR Phase I statistics is available at: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/050302t.htm

The table also includes the U.S. totals and averages for comparison purposes. The Department of Energy (DOE) and the Public Health Service are the only agencies for which the percentage of awards to proposals was higher than one-in-five. For DOE, which includes both STTR and SBIR in its figures, the conversion percentage was as high as 25.6. For the Public Health Service, which includes the rapidly growing SBIR program of the National Institutes of Health, the percentage was 22.9.

Information was provided directly by each agency's SBIR program office and may be subject to revision before the official statistics are made available by the Small Business Administration. Abstract information for funded SBIR projects may be obtained on each agency's SBIR website or by contacting the federal agencies directly.

Statistics for SBIR awards and dollar totals for previous years are available through the SBA Office of Technology:

http://www.sba.gov/sbir/indexsbir-sttr.html#sbirawards