Search by category

You can use this form to retrieve records from the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Historical Database. Just fill out the form and click the "Search by category" button (located at the bottom of the form). The system will then display a Summary list of all the records that met your search criteria.

Search by awardee name

You can use this form to retrieve records from the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Historical Database. Just fill out the form and click the "Search by awardee" button (located at the bottom of the form). The system will then display a Summary list of all the records that met your search criteria.

[Note: A common search problem is to over specify the search. This may result in zero records meeting the search criteria. You will most likely only need to enter information in 2 to 4 fields to complete your search.]

This screen describes the following:

• Field Descriptions
• Field Relationships
• Search Values

Field Descriptions

Years

The Year field contains the Year the award was awarded.

State

The State field contains the State where the awardee is located.

Phase

The Phase field identifies the phase of the award. Phase I is a feasibility study to evaluate the scientific and technical merit of an idea (usually six month). Phase II is to expand on the results of and to pursue the development of Phase I (usually two years)

Technical Abstract

The Technical Abstract field contains a narrative summary of the document.

Firm Name

The "Firm Name" identifies the name of the awarded small business concern.

Field Relationships

• If you select Ascending, each record will be sorted Alphabetically from A-Z or least to greatest.

• If you select Descending, each record will be sorted Alphabetically from Z-A or greatest to least.

IMPORTANT NOTE - Search Values

The search value is the component that you select which is compared to the record's field. The search value boxes are located under the field label.

For fields with a checkbox or radio button, click on the checkbox or radio button to select the search field.

For fields without a checkbox or radio button, type the value you want to find. You do not need to enclose your search values within any special characters (such as double quotes). The search is not case-sensitive and values may occur in any order in the field or search value box.

"*" Character holds multiple character positions. (Example: train* may search for any of these terms --; "train", "training", or "trains".)