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SPIR Celebrates Fifteen Years!

Program Highlights

  • Federal Investment

    Since 2001, Stony Brook’s SPIR program has leveraged $0.45M in NY State funding 1:35 to help to bring in $16.4M in federal SBIR/STTR funding to our SPIR partner companies.

  • Corporate Investment

    Since inception in 1994, New York State companies have invested $27.7M in cash in SPIR projects for the Development of new products and manufacturing processes.

  • Educational Investment

    More than 2200 students (graduate and undergraduate) have directly benefitted by working on SPIR internships.

  • High Tech Workforce Investment

    The program is also instrumental in assisting our graduates to find jobs. Many of the SPIR students are hired as full time employees upon graduation after completion of their projects.

  • New Enterprise Investment

    SPIR also continues to provide a record level of support to our incubator companies to assist them in developing their technologies. Over the years, we have worked with 62 Stony Brook incubator companies including companies involved in the incubator without walls program.

  • 398 NY Companies • 2205 Projects • Creation/retention 9,175/2,490 Jobs! Supporting all areas of engineering including: software & IT, electronics, microprocessor design, medical devices and instrumentation, mechanical design, rapid prototyping, materials development and evaluation, biomedical engineering and more!