SBIR Phase I Awards, Proposals by State — FY11

Compiling SBIR Phase I awards and proposal statistics by state for FY11, SSTI finds the 10 states with the most awards in FY11 were California (674), Massachusetts (416), Virginia (215), New York (146), Texas (143), Maryland (142), Colorado (130), Ohio (130), Pennsylvania (124), and Florida (92). New York moved into fourth place, up one spot from last year while Texas moved into fifth place, up from seventh place. Colorado fell three spots from last year to seventh place, tying with Ohio, which moved up one spot, dropping Pennsylvania to ninth place. Florida moved into the top 10, climbing from 12th place last year and dropping Michigan out of the top 10.

Notably, the total number of SBIR Phase I awards and proposals are down quite a bit from 2010 across nearly all of the participating agencies. In FY11, agencies granted a total 3,268 awards, down from 4,388 in FY10, a 25 percent decrease. Overall, agencies that reported proposal statistics received 11 percent less proposals in 2011 than 2010.

Using figures provided by the individual federal agencies, SSTI has prepared a table showing FY11 Phase I SBIR data for all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. Statistics include awards, proposals and award-to-proposal conversion rates for 10 of the 12 participating agencies (the Department of Education and the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declined to provide proposal statistics). The table is available at: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/060612t.htm

SSTI's FY01-11 SBIR statistics provide 11 years of data to evaluate award, proposal and conversion trends for most agencies and comparable states. Tables containing data for fiscal years 2000-10 are available at:

FY 2010: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/060111t.htm

FY 2009: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/051910t.htm

FY 2008: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/060309t.htm

FY 2007: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/070908t.htm

FY 2006: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/120507t.htm

FY 2005: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/022607t.htm

FY 2004: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/042505t.htm

FY 2003: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/062705t.htm

FY 2002: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/090503t.htm

FY 2001: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/051002t.htm

FY 2000: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/030901t.htm (award data only)