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Small Business Innovation Research-Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR-STTR) Budget Allocations

Congress requires the Public Health Service and other Federal agencies to reserve a specified amount of their extramural research budgets for supporting research and development conducted by the small business community and nonprofit organizations.

At NIH, each Institute must allocate 2.5 percent of its total Research and Development budget for SBIR grants and 0.30 percent for STTR grants. For FY 2001, the NIH SBIR set-aside budget was $411 million (an increase of $59 million more than FY 2000) and $25 million for STTR grants (an increase of $4 million more than FY 2000).

At NIA, the number of applicants who applied for these grants has substantially increased since the program was established at NIH in 1983. In FY 2003, NIA awarded approximately $21.4 million for SBIR grants and $1.4 million for STTR grants.