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         .... to perhaps the most important website focused specifically to
    • realizing the value of the wealth of capabilities and achievement of SBIR Awardees - that population which, considered as a collectivity, is unquestionably the largest single concentration of technical talent.
    • and particularly importantly, facilitating working relationships between
      • those wishing to identify and needing access to the outcomes of that talent - Tech Seekers
      • and those among the SBIR Community who have the requisite skills-sets and capabilities they need
    In short, our fundamental business focus - on- and offline - is to enabling the     Business of Phase III.

    That clearly said, through the many years this site has been available, our experience has been that many who use it are primarily interested in having access to the public segment of our databases for search purposes. To that end, therefore, the site - and the available subscriptions offered - split into TWO very distinct categories. These areas are appropriately color-coded

    Subscriptions related to
    Specialized Searches
    Subscriptions related to
    Business of Phase III
    Individual - no-cost or low cost ($295.00) with the emphasis on quick (but useful) overviews on program related matters and being able to do useful searches within various databases. Corporate Subscriptions - offered at THREE levels, these more substantial subscriptions
    • include all the basic search capabilities available in the Individual PLUS access to certain other databases and with provision for various considerable extra enhancements to ease and facilitate those searches
    • PLUS provide the full extent of services on- and offline designed to support the range of business opportunities and exposure.
    Advanced Individual Subscription:
    For the smaller (or newcomer) SBIR Awardee who need some of the services which go with Corporate Membership but perhaps initially unable to justify the full freight of a Corporate Subscription, we have instituted aan Advanced Individual Subscription ($995.00) - see details
    Tracking SBIR Awards and Awardees
    Tracking the distribution of SBIR-STTR awards and dollars is always interesting --- and, has it has these many years, this site will continue to be a (the?) primary vehicle for doing that through our powerful, cross-agency databases. In like manner, for those who needs to keep on top of trends and developments in the SBIR community, the enhanced business and technology capabilities data available here on all SBIR Awardees, PLUS the range of analytical components offered in the open-access areas throughout the site make regular visits here a must!

    HOWEVER, effective SBIR-SSTR participation is not just about getting awards nor even about keeping count. In the final analysis, the importance of SBIR-STTR as technology-development programs, and achievement of the small firms which have been selected for award, must be judged by the extent to which funded projects have resulted in new capabilities which, in turn, have had technological, business and economic impact. Tracking all that by a range of relevant indicators - case-studies, issued patents, VC investment, M&A transactions and public offerings, collaborations and deals - and, even more important, by providing powerful tools and resources to enable more of that to happen is what this site is about.

    Offered by long-time SBIR advocate Ann Eskesen, and involving various others with considerable expertise in business development and technology transfer, it is important to underscore that, by careful design, this site is quite distinctly different from most other SBIR-STTR online resources.

    1. For openers, this is a Registration and Subscription Site -- Why do I have to register?
    2. Additionally, though used extensively by federal personnel - there is considerable useful data and analyses here that is not readily available elsewhere - this is a privately managed endeavor, neither government sponsored nor agency subsidized.
    3. Further, while there is much here that will be useful and interesting to SBIR-STTR newcomers - see SBIR Basics and other useful discussion - the primary emphasis of the site is towards addressing those aspects of achieving the Phase III condition that are critically important and much needed .... and which are largely not being addressed elsewhere. Specifically
    The capacity to search by a range of awards activity, business-condition and technology development factors across a single, fully current, program-wide system. What is in the databases?
    Ready access to sophisticated analyses of business-use and economic impact issues - critical components, we would argue, in supporting effectively the SBIR Reauthorization effort which must occur in this 110th Congress.
    With a strong Market-Pull (versus Technology-Push) focus, provision of tools and resources -- online and offline -- to increase the SBIR-STTR awareness of, and effectively to connect Tech Seekers from the larger business and financial communities to the extraordinary range and depth of talent and capability resident within the SBIR-STTR Community. Connecting Tech Seekers to Qualified SBIR Awardees

    How is the site organized?
    Beyond the open-access, read-only lead pages for each section, tied to the form of Subscription this sophisticated 'smart' system controls what each User can do and can see. In general, Individual Subcriptions are more limited in scope and scale with search capabilities primarily menu-driven; Corporate Subscribers have a far wider range of options including keyword search, provision of an in-system Work Area, substantial posting capabilities and offline support.

    Each section of the site draws down on massive supporting databases, with considerable cross-referencing between each component. Functionalities are broadly organized around THREE primary areas.

    • Specialist Searches, Participation Tracking and Analyses:
      Functioning primarily as a self-help, multi-layered, but single across-agency system, these databases documents the specifics of every SBIR and STTR award over the life of the program and current to the most recently awarded.
          Even more important, this system also supports in exquisite detail data which documents both the business condition and the technology capabilities of every SBIR-STTR Awardee previously and currently SBIR-involved, no matter the extent of that involvement or their present business condition. Searches can include technology competencies, patents, VC, M&A transactions, needs and requirements etc.
    • The Business of Phase III .
      This part of the site - designed from a strong market pull (versus technology push) approach - is structured explicity to enable important business opportunity(ies) for those Awardees capable of doing leading-edge work.
         Structured into THREE primary components, these organize around listing the Demonstrated Capabilities of SBIR Awardees; indicating the declared Technology Needs of a wide (and growing) range of large and mid-sized Tech-Seeking firms and, finally, provide for posting of specific needs and requirements. The detail of what is in this part of the site and how it works is discussed on the lead page to that part of the site.
    • SBIR Community.
      While the relational databases are inevitably grounded primarily in Awards and Awardees related information, the SBIR Community is a far broader grouping to include the
      • participating Federal Agencies - program managers and the range of agency personnel with SBIR connection
      • often-important, State focused SBIR_STTR support organizations - there is a direct correlation between the effectyiveness oflocal supportservices and the extyent and form of SBIR participation in that region.
      • the range of technical, business and financial professional services required to take the small firm from initial SBIR application to management of the firm, through most appropriate use of the developed technologies.