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Appendix B: NRC Phase II Survey and NRC Firm Survey
Appendix B: NRC Phase II Survey and NRC Firm Survey
Pages 165-189
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The 10 years of Phase II coverage spanned the period of increased funding set-asides and the impact of the 1992 reauthorization. This time frame allowed for extended periods of commercialization and for a robust spectrum of economic conditions.
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Using the most recent awards, the firm information was updated to the most current contact information for each firm. Sampling Approaches and Issues The Phase II survey used an array of sampling techniques, to ensure adequate coverage of projects to address a wide range of both outcomes and potential explanatory variables, and also to address the existence of a skew in the distribution of outcomes.
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Although this approach sampled more than 57 percent of the awards, multiple award winners, on average, were asked to respond to surveys covering about 20 percent of their projects. Administration of the Survey The questionnaire drew extensively from the one used in the 1999 National Research Council assessment of SBIR at the Department of Defense, The Small Business Innovation Research Program: An Assessment of the Department of Defense Fast Track Initiative. That questionnaire in turn built upon the questionnaire for the 1991 GAO SBIR study.
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Hyperlinks provide amplifying information, and built-in quality checks control the internal consistency of the responses. Finally, online surveys allow dynamic branching of question sets, with some respondents answering selected subsets of questions but not others, depending on prior responses.
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The next email went to 788 email addresses that we had received from agencies as PI emails. We asked that the PI have the correct company POC identify themselves at the NAS Update registration site.
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The NRC Methodology report had assumed a response rate of about 20 percent. Considering the length of the survey and its voluntary nature, the rate Firm information and response percentages are not displayed in Table App-B-1, which displays by agency, since many firms received awards from multiple agencies.
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APPENDIX B 171 achieved was relatively high and reflects both the interest of the participants in the SBIR program and the extensive follow-up efforts. At the same time, the possibility of response biases that could significantly affect the survey results must be recognized.
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What is the current status of the project funded by the referenced SBIR award? Select the one best answer.
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Part II. Commercialization activities and planning. Questions 3-7 concern actual sales to date resulting from the technology developed during this project.
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, when did the first sale occur, and For what is the approximate amount of total sales resulting from the technology developed during this project? If multiple SBIR awards contributed to the ultimate commercial outcome, report only the share of total sales appropriate to this SBIR project.
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3% State or local governments 0% Export Markets 11% Other (Specify) _____________ 0% The following questions identify the product, process, or service resulting from the project supported by the referenced SBIR award, including its use in a fielded federal system or a federal acquisition program.
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. This question answered by 114 firms, which completed Phase II and have not discontinued the proj ect, w/o sales or additional funding.
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12. a result of the technology developed during this project, which of the As following describes your company's activities with other companies and investors?
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the absence of SBIR funding, (Please provide your best estimate of the In impact)
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Number Applied For/ Number Received/ Submitted Published 52 Patents 42 9 Copyrights 7 12 Trademarks 12 225 Scientific Publications 220 Part IV. Other SBIR funding 19. How many SBIR awards did your company receive prior to the Phase I that led to this Phase II?
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Questions 22 and 23 address additional funding. Additional Developmental Funds include non-SBIR funds from federal or private sector sources, or from your own company, used for further development and/or commercialization of the technology developed during this Phase II project.
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(2) Personal funds $3,121 Total average additional developmental funding, all sources, per award $281,534 24.
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1% Mentor company provided assistance c. 0% Regional association provided assistance d.
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32. Did commercialization of the results of your SBIR award require FDA ap proval?
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If your firm is registered in the DoD SBIR/STTR Submission Web site, the information filled in below is based on your latest update as of September 2004 on that site. Since you may have entered this information many months ago, you may edit this information to make it correct.
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13% 1 Phase I 34% 2 to 5 Phase I 24% 6 to 10 Phase I 14% 11 to 20 Phase I 11% 21 to 50 Phase I 3% 51 to 100 Phase I 2% >100 Phase I Five firms reported >300 Phase I
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5. What percentage of your company's growth would you attribute to the SBIR program after receiving its first SBIR award?
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was devoted to SBIR activities during the most recent fiscal year? ___% 22% 0% of R&D was SBIR during most recent fiscal year.
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13. This company normally first determines the potential commercial market for an SBIR product, process or service a.
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that result from commer cialising an SBIR award at this company are accomplished by: Select all that apply.
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