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Since its inception in 1982, small businesses have received over $3.194 billion in funding in SBIR awards alone. The STTR program, created in 1992 to encourage cooperative research between small businesses and research institutes, has extended this support by another $423.3 million in funding as of 2019. To read about some of the exciting projects and small businesses that the DOE has sponsored through SBIR and STTR, please visit +++++EXTERNAL LINK ++ Success Stories+++++