An Assessment of the SBIR Program at the National Institutes of Health (2009) / Chapter Skim
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6030 System 21 AFRL 1999 F41624-99-C- An Ambulatory Neurophysiological Monitoring 6007 System 22 NIMH 2001 R44-MH60053 NeuroCognitive Assessment Meter For Psychiatric Drugs 23 NIDA 2001 R44-DA12840 Neurocognitive Index of Cannabis Effects 24 NIA 2002 R44- AG17397 Neurocognitive Assessment of the Elderly 25 NICHD 2002 R44- HD37728 26 NINDS 2003 R44- NS42992 27 DARPA 2003 DAAH01-03-C- Multicompartment Neuroworkload Monitor R292 28 NHLBI 2004 R44- HL065265 UNEDITED PROOFS
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426 PREPUBLICATION COPY 29 ONR 2004 N00014-04-C- Multitasking Personnel Selection Test 0431 UNEDITED PROOFS
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For these reasons the company continues to rely on SBIR funding to provide the necessary development support to create new products and expand its range of services. While SBIR grants remain an important revenue stream for many small companies in the program, Sociometrices involvement has distinguished itself with: a)
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PRIMARY OUTCOMES • Four major product lines, with a fifth under development; • Consistent profitability from inception; • Industry standard for topically-focused social science data and program archives; • Distribution agreement for data products with world-leading provider of authoritative reference information solutions; • CDC adoption of program archive products for nationwide distribution; • Product line with social impact: effective program replication kits have changed the way behavioral practitioners operate in community settings; and • More than 60 peer-reviewed publications based on SBIR-funded projects KEY SBIR ISSUES Sociometrics has found the SBIR program a very productive platform for its work. The program has allowed Sociometrics to: a)
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In carrying out its mission, several areas of corporate expertise have been developed: • the design and operation of machine-readable, topically-focused data archives; • the development of powerful, yet user-friendly, software for search and retrieval of information in health and social science databases; • the harnessing of state-of-the-art developments in computer hardware and software to facilitate access to, and use of, the best data in a given research area; • primary and secondary analysis of computer data bases using a variety of commercially available statistical packages as well as custom-designed software; • the design, execution, and analysis of program evaluations; • the design, execution, and analysis of health and social surveys; • the collection and analysis of social and psychological data using a variety of modes (mail; telephone; focus groups; in-person interviews) ; • the collection and dissemination of social intervention programs with demonstrated promise of effectiveness; and • the provision of training and technical assistance on all the above topics.
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PRODUCTS Sociometrics currently provides four research-based product lines: • data archives and analysis tools; • replication kits for effective social and behavioral intervention programs; • evaluation research; and • training and technical assistance services. Sociometrics staff members are currently developing a fifth product line, online behavioral and social science-based information resources, to facilitate "distance learning." Data Archives and Analysis Tools The Sociometrics data archives are collections of primary research data.
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Several thousand SSEDL data sets have been downloaded from the Sociometrics web site over the last three years, some by pay-as-you-go customers who execute a secure credit card transaction, others by faculty members and students able to download the data sets at no charge because their university is an SSEDL subscriber. Sales of the data archives and associated products have yielded approximately $125,000 in profits over the last three years.
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They have also proven to be commercial successes, generating profits totaling over half a million dollars in the last three years. Like the Sociometrics Data Archives, the Sociometrics replication kits (known collectively as the Sociometrics Program Archives)
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The other CDC program on HIV/AIDS prevention, a competitor to Sociometrics' HIV/AIDS Prevention Program Archive, is using replication kits developed at Sociometrics for some of its selected programs, boosting sales of the Sociometrics HIV/AIDS Prevention Program Archive by an order of magnitude. In this manner Sociometrics Program Archives have complemented the larger CDC efforts, just as the Sociometrics Data Archives have complemented the larger University of Michigan efforts.
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In particular, large nonprofit networks provide many opportunities for partnership. For example, on the teen pregnancy prevention program archive, Sociometrics has worked with the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Advocates for Youth, and the National Organization for Adolescent Pregnancy, Prevention, and Parenting Inc.
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Its data archives, collectively known as The Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL) , are also available via institutional subscriptions marketed to universities and research libraries by Sociometrics' dissemination partner Thomson Gale.
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In the last three fiscal years the contribution to profit of the various product lines was as follows: data archives, 18%; program archives, 67%; evaluation and training, 15%. The distribution agreement entered into with Thomson Gale to market institutional subscriptions to the Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL)
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Sociometrics has never sought venture capital funding because its profits, while impressive for a behavioral and social science firm, are not large enough to make the company sustainable without SBIR funding, a requirement for venture capital funding. Changing the field NIH and CDC officials, among others, regard Sociometrics' effective-program replication kits as an important innovation helping to bridge the gap between health-related research and practice.
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Examples include: • Teen pregnancy prevention program replication kits. Originally funded by NICHD, Sociometrics sought a third year of Phase II support through a supplement to expand the scope of the Program Archive on Sexuality, Health & Adolescence (PASHA)
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