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The Advanced Technology Program:

Challenges and Opportunities

Charles W. Wessner, Editor

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1999. Advanced Technology Program: Challenges and Opportunities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9699.
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NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1999. Advanced Technology Program: Challenges and Opportunities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9699.
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For the National Research Council, this project was overseen by the Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy (STEP), a standing board of the NRC established by the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine in 1991. The mandate of the STEP Board is to integrate understanding of scientific, technological, and economic elements in the formulation of national policies to promote the economic well-being of the United States. A distinctive characteristic of STEP's approach is its frequent interactions with public and private sector decision-makers. STEP bridges the disciplines of business management, engineering, economics, and the social sciences to bring diverse expertise to bear on pressing public policy questions. The members of the STEP Boards* and the NRC staff are listed below:

Dale Jorgenson, Chair Frederic Eaton Abbe Professor of Economics

Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts

M. Kathy Behrens Managing Partner

BancBoston Robertson Stephens San Francisco, California

James F. Gibbons Professor of Engineering

Stanford University Stanford, California

Bronwyn H. Hall Associate Professor of Economics

University of California Berkeley, California

Ralph Landau Consulting Professor of Economics

Stanford University Stanford, California

Richard Levin President

Yale University New Haven, Connecticut

William J. Spencer, Vice-Chair Chairman

SEMATECH Austin, Texas

Mark B. Myers Senior Vice President

Xerox Corporation Stamford, Connecticut

Edward E. Penhoet Dean,

School of Public Health University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, California

A. Michael Spence Dean,

Graduate School of Business Stanford University Stanford, California

Joseph E. Stiglitz Senior Vice-President for Development Economics

The World Bank Washington, D.C.

Alan Wm. Wolff Managing Partner

Dewey Ballantine Washington, D.C.

*  

As of September 1999

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Staff

Stephen A. Merrill Executive Director

Charles W. Wessner Program Director

John B. Horrigan Staff Officer

Craig M. Schultz Program Associate

Laura T. Holliday Program Associate

McAlister T. Clabaugh Program Associate

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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
BOARD ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ECONOMIC POLICY

Sponsors

The National Research Council gratefully acknowledges the support of the following sponsors:

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Energy

National Cancer Institute

National Institute of Standards and Technology

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Science Foundation

Sandia National Laboratories

Electric Power Research Institute

Kulicke and Soffa Industries

Merck and Company

Milliken Industries

Motorola

Nortel

Procter and Gamble

Silicon Valley Group Incorporated

Advanced Micro Devices

Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the project sponsors.

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STEERING COMMITTEE FOR GOVERNMENT-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Gordon Moore, Chair Chairman

Emeritus Intel Corporation

M. Kathy Behrens Managing Partner

BancBoston Robertson Stephens and STEP Board

Gordon Binder Chief Executive Officer

Amgen, Inc.

Michael Borrus Co-Director

Berkeley Roundtable on International Economics

Iain Cockburn Professor of Commerce and Business Administration

University of British Columbia

Kenneth Flamm Dean Rusk Chair in International Affairs

LBJ School of Public Affairs University of Texas at Austin

James F. Gibbons Professor of Engineering

Stanford University and STEP Board

William J. Spencer, Vice-Chair Chairman,

SEMATECH and STEP Board

W. Clark McFadden Partner

Dewey Ballantine

Mark B. Myers Senior Vice President

Xerox Corporation and STEP Board

Richard Nelson George Blumenthal Professor of International and Public Affairs

Columbia University

Charles Trimble Vice Chairman

Trimble Navigation

John P. Walker Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Axys Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Patrick Windham Lecturer Stanford University Consultant

Science and Technology Policy

Project Staff

Charles W. Wessner Study Director

McAlister T. Clabaugh Program Associate

John B. Horrigan Staff Officer

Laura T. Holliday Program Associate

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Contents

I.

 

Preface

 

1

II.

 

Introduction

 

11

III.

 

Proceedings

 

 

   

Welcome
Charles Wessner, National Research Council

 

26

   

Introduction to the Symposium
Bill Spencer, Sematech

 

28

   

Opening Remarks
Ray Kammer, National Institute of Standards and Technology

 

31

   

Panel I: History and Current Legislative Perspective on the ATP Program
Moderator: Clark McFadden, Dewey Ballantine

 

37

   

An Overview of the Program's History and Objectives
Christopher Hill, George Mason University

 

38

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Perspectives on the Program
Loren Yager, General Accounting Office (GAO) Richard Russell, House Committee on Science David Goldston, Office of Representative Sherman Boehlert Claude Barfield, American Enterprise Institute James Turner, House Committee on Science

 

42

   

Panel II: Program Objectives
Moderator: Henry Kelly, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

 

51

   

Decision Making: The ATP Selection Process
Lura Powell, National Institute of Standards and Technology

 

53

   

Mission Synergies
Jeffrey Schloss, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health

 

56

   

Industry Perspectives I
David Gibson, X-Ray Optical Systems, Inc

 

59

   

Industry Perspectives II
Richard Ramseyer, Honeywell Technology Center

 

63

   

Discussants:
William Newall, Axys Pharmaceuticals, Inc Jeff Grove, House Committee on Science

 

 

   

Discussion

 

 

   

Panel III: Research Perspectives on the ATP
Moderator: Richard Nelson, Columbia University

 

70

   

Assessment of the ATP
Rosalie Ruegg, National Institute of Standards and Technology

 

71

   

Performance Measures as Indicators of ATP Effects on Long-term Business Success
Lynne Zucker, University of California at Los Angeles Michael Darby, University of California at Los Angeles

 

81

   

Discussant:
J. C. Spender, New York Institute of Technology

 

 

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Panel IV: Capital Markets and New Technologies
Moderator: Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin

 

86

   

Venture Capital and the ATP
Joshua Lerner, Harvard Business School

 

88

   

A Venture Capitalist Perspective
Todd Spener, Charter Financial

 

90

   

Small Firm Experience in the ATP
Mitch Eggers, Genometrix, Inc Mark Pittenger, Osiris Therapeutics

 

92

   

Discussion

 

 

   

Panel V: Extending Assessment—Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator: Iain Cockburn, University of British Columbia

 

98

   

Information Needs for Measuring Spillovers from Public-Private R&D Partnering
Maryellen Kelley, Carnegie Mellon and National Institute of Standards and Technology

 

99

   

Assessing Productivity Impacts in Health Care Information
William Lehr, Columbia University

 

105

   

Comparing ATP and non-ATP Research Joint Ventures
Nicholas Vonortas, George Washington University

 

108

   

Panel VI: Observations and Policy Issues
Moderator: Charles Wessner, National Research Council

 

111

   

ATP Assessment: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Barry Bozeman, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

111

   

The ATP and Legislative Flexibility
James Turner, House Committee on Science

 

113

   

The ATP and US Technology Policy
Richard Nelson, Columbia University

 

113

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The ATP and Program Management
J.C. Spender, New York Institute of Technology

 

114

   

The ATP and Spillovers
Christopher Hill, George Mason University

 

115

   

Discussion

 

 

   

Concluding Remarks

 

 

 

 

Annex

 

 

   

A. Bibliography

 

119

   

B. Participants List

 

123

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The growth in government programs to support high-technology industry within national economies and their impact on international science and technology cooperation and on the multilateral trading system are of considerable interest worldwide. Accordingly, these topics were taken up by STEP in a study carried out in conjunction with the Hamburg Institute for Economic Research and the Institute for World Economics in Kiel. One of the principal recommendations for further work emerging from that study was a call for an analysis of the principles of effective cooperation in technology development, to include lessons from national and international consortia, including eligibility standards and assessments of what new cooperative mechanisms might be developed to meet the challenges of international cooperation in high-technology products.

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