SURVEY OF ATP APPLICANTS 2000
11. Descriptive Statistics for ATP Applicants:
Company Size and R&D Effort

This factsheet presents information on company size and level of Research and Development (R&D) effort for applicants to the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) in the year 2000 competition. Data shown is from responses to the Survey of ATP Applicants 2000. The survey collected information on the number of employees and total revenues for the company as a whole, and the number of R&D employees and the R&D budget for the company unit applying to ATP.

Total Number of Employees

• Most companies applying to ATP are small companies. At the end of 2000, one-third of the year 2000 applicants had fewer than 10 employees, while another 27 percent had between 10 and 50 employees. Just under 20 percent had 500 employees or more. (See Figure 1.)
  

FIGURE 1. Number of Employees among Year 2000 ATP Applicants

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Total Company Revenues

• About one-quarter of all ATP applicants in 2000 had no company revenue. Another 23 percent had revenues of less than $1 million, and 22 percent had revenues between $1 million and $10 million. (See Figure 2.)
  

FIGURE 2. Company Revenue among Year 2000 ATP Applicants

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R&D Employees

• At the end of 2000, most applicants (78%) had fewer than 50 employees working in R&D (at the survey respondent's location). About one-third of applicants had fewer than 5 employees working in this role. (See Figure 3.)
  

FIGURE 3. Number of R&D Employees among Year 2000 ATP Applicants

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R&D Budget

• Most applicants (77%) in the year 2000 competition had R&D budgets of less than $5 million. 15 percent reported that their year 2000 R&D budgets (at the survey respondent's location) were less than $100,000. One-third reported their budget to be between $100,000 and $1 million. (See Figure 4.)
  

FIGURE 4. R&D Budget among Year 2000 ATP Applicants

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Date created: June 24, 2003
Last updated: August 2, 2005

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