Useful Stats: 2002 STTR Awards by State

Today's issue of the Idaho SBIR Competition News, an electronic newsletter, includes a table presenting the FY 2002 award statistics by state for the Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR). The table includes state totals for the number of awards given and total dollar amount received for both Phase I and Phase II awards. Only Puerto Rico and five states were without some funding during the year from at least one of the five federal agencies required to participate in the STTR program — the departments of Defense, Energy and Health & Human Services, NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

STTR is a highly competitive program that reserves a very small percentage of federal R&D funding for awards to small business and nonprofit research partnerships. Federal agencies with extramural R&D budgets over $1 billion are required to administer STTR programs using an annual set-aside of 0.15 percent. The set-aside will increase to 0.3 percent in FY 2004.

The table is available at: http://www.webs.uidaho.edu/sbir/docs/STTR_Rankings.htm

The table was prepared by Office of Technology within the Small Business Administration, which has oversight for both STTR and the larger Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. More information on the office and STTR program, including previous year award statistics is available at: http://www.sba.gov/sbir/indexsbir-sttr.html

Prepared bi-weekly by Dr. Chris Busch, Idaho SBIR Competition News is published bi-weekly as part of the SBIR outreach activity conducted by the NSF-Idaho EPSCoR Project. More information is available at: http://www.webs.uidaho.edu/sbir/