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An Assessment of the SBIR Program
TABLE 3-7 Percent of Winning Companies that Had Not Previously Received an SBIR Grant from NSF, 1996-2003
Fiscal Year
Previous Winners
New Winners
Percent New Winners
1996
98
109
52.7
1997
99
116
54.0
1998
83
100
54.6
1999
113
81
41.8
2000
97
108
52.7
2001
92
95
50.8
2002
99
133
57.3
2003
138
236
63.1
SOURCE: National Science Foundation.
DoD’s SBIR Program Office reports that 37 percent of awards on average go to firms that have not previously won a DoD SBIR award.6
To conclude, the data on new winners strongly makes clear that the various SBIR programs are open to new ideas from new firms, even though in some cases individual firms have been able to win a significant number of awards, remaining active participants in a growing program of innovative research. A detailed assessment of this issue is provided in Chapter 5.
6
See National Research Council, An Assessment of the SBIR Program at the Department of Defense, Charles W. Wessner, ed., Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2009; Chapter 2: Awards.
