Slide title: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)

Slide words: Total SBIR/STTR FY 2012 request: $147 million

Slide image: Graph-like diagram showing resources invested by NSF overall, STTR and SBIR. Words on the graphic are: Resources Invested, NSF overall, STTR, SBIR, Innovation, Discovery, Development, Commercialization, University, Small Business, Foundations, Investors, Industry, "Valley of Death"

Image credit: National Science Foundation

Bottom banner images (left to right): Image of an F4 Phantom fighter jet created with a 3D telepresence system; photo of scientists deploying an apparatus for taking sonar measurements from the seafloor; artist's conception showing the newly discovered planet GJ 581g of the Gliese 581 system; artist's conception of a molecular robot; photo of a fifth-grade student; sketch of RNA molecules

Bottom banner images credits (left to right): University of Arizona; Igor Semiletov, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Lynette Cook; Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation; Elsa Head, Tufts University; Dr. Jennifer Henke, Princeton University