Useful Stats: SBIR Awards, Proposals by State, FY 2006

During the past year, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program has garnered a great deal of attention, setting the stage for a national debate over potential changes to the well known federal program – namely the issue of participation from companies with venture-capital backing. With congressional reauthorization on the horizon for next year, SSTI examined the SBIR program in-depth during a breakout session at the annual conference in October, looking at both current status and future developments.



Compiling award and proposal statistics by state for fiscal year 2006, SSTI finds the 10 states with the most awards in FY 2006 were California (725), Massachusetts (466), Virginia (221), Texas (176), Colorado (173), Maryland (169), Ohio (167), New York (163), Pennsylvania (133) and Washington (91). Compared to the top states for FY05, little changed other than Texas, Colorado and Maryland switching around fourth through sixth places and Washington edging out Michigan for the 10th slot.

 

SSTI has prepared a table showing FY 2006 Phase I SBIR data for all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. Statistics include awards, proposals and award-to-proposal conversion rates for 10 of the 12 participating agencies (the Department of Education and the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declined to provide proposal statistics). The table is available at: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/120507t.htm

 

SSTI’s FY01-06 SBIR statistics provide seven years of data to evaluate award, proposal and conversion trends for most agencies and comparable states. Tables containing data for fiscal years 2001-2005 are available at:

 

FY 2005: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/022607t.htm

FY 2004: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/042505t.htm

FY 2003: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/062705t.htm

FY 2002: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/090503t.htm

FY 2001: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/051002t.htm

FY 2000: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/030901t.htm (award data only)