Who are SBIR Awardees
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For the previous 25 years, decision to apply for SBIR research funding was far more loosely determined that it is today. The initiative being primarily that of the individuals involved - person or firm. With important focus on PI status at the time of award - versus at the time of application - it was estimated at one point several years into program operation that perhaps as high as 20 percent of the awards funding were being used
- to open the doors of the receiving entity for the first time
- and/or to bring onto the staff someone whom the small firm could probably not otherwise afford.
In the near term, though there are awardees in our records marked
- "Lost Trace" - particularly among those early-involved and having very limited SBIR participation: 1,556 of them
- "No info available" despite considerable digging to include principals of the firm: another 2200+. Most were also SBIR-active in the earlier years but these also include several hundred in receipt of award within the past 8-10 years but, apparently - on the part of some, by careful choice - opt to fly under the radar
- "Out of Business" - where we know for sure - or "Out of Business(?)" where management just seems quietly to have closed the doors - sadly, a far more common occurrence in the past 5-6 years. Sometimes this involves a firm having been acquired - and we pick that up later - or simply has changed it's name - a very common occurrence which we also maintain as part of the the awardee record. In almost all cases, we will at least have some level of useful information about the firm.
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Doing some basic SBIR numbers
SBIR-STTR Awards
Designed as a single, government-wide system tracking SBIR awards by company across all agencies, the system was instituted as a Relational Database almost as soon as those powerful, analytical tools became available in the mid-eighties. By this means, in various Congressional testimony and related political activity over many years, along with a full calendar of SBIR Participation presentations around the country before all types of audiences, we have been able to discuss in detail precisely
- how the program was being managed and used in the various participating agencies,
- which firms in what locations were getting how many awards, from which agencies, for how much money and with what sort of Phase II conversion rates and business outcome.
Awardee Profiles: what does idi track?
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- Detailed Company Profile: full contact info
- Names by which also and/or previously known. Address history & multi-site locations
- Business Identifier: synopsis of primary business and technology focus
- Personnel: Current & former management; all Principal Investigators: Many personal emails and bios
- Overview of current Financial & Business condition: founding date; employment range; revenues. Other data relevant to company history
- Synopsis: extent of SBIR-STTR involvement: sources, dollars, Phase I-II conversions, Current SBIR status
- Forms of any follow-on federal funding: Phase III procurement contracts, earmarks and plus-ups
- Venture Capital: date(s), source(s), type, dollars and round(s). Liquidity events: IPO (Track stock) and M&A
- Intellectual property: patent detail to include citation(s)
- Working relationships with major-mid-sized corporations
- Any spins-in & spins-out. Acquisitions
- Technical thesaurus: indicator of technical competencies
- Business or Technology Recognition Awards
- Media coverage: business and popular press and other sources
- Document Repository: Professional & technical papers; Presentations; White Papers; Business Profiles and Nutshells; and Marketing materials