State Support Organizations Quality State SBIR Support can makes a difference: Over the now 30+ years of SBIR activity there is compelling evidence that local access to quality support services can be a major factor not only in affecting the number and achieved success of SBIR applications from a geographic region and in the effective management of awards that are forthcoming but also in the achieved rate(s) of Phase II conversion To that end, in almost every state there now are designated organizations with some level State and/or university support focused to providing information with varying levels of support and training available to SBIR applicants and awardees. In this part of the ASSETs site, with full contact information, those who fill this role are identifed on the Brass Plate prominent on each State Data set out here. Doing some basic SBIR numbers Participating States 52 Dollars Received $72.8B Phase I awards 145,314 Phase II awards 60,824