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Pages 59-62

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From page 59...
... A substantial majority of the applicants surveyed by Feldman and Kelley widely considered ATP's application process to be fair and rational. Further, the survey finds that the projects and firms selected by ATP are more willing than those not selected to share their research findings with other firms and tend to be collaborative in new technical areas and form new R&D partnerships findings consistent with ATP's goal of selecting projects with large spillover potential.
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From page 60...
... His findings suggest that · the ATP is accelerating and improving the successful outcome of collaborative projects; · the ATP projects are taking on higher risk and longer-term research than collaborative endeavors without government involvement; and · the ATP is providing funding during critical stages, overcoming barriers to collaborating, increasing project stability, and causing collaborative projects to run more smoothly, albeit with some perceived loss of flexibility on the part of participants. Case Studies Several papers are case studies designed to measure various elements of performance of specific projects or collections of projects.
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From page 61...
... This paper projects potential gains from ATP-supported technologies and in addition illustrates the contributions the ATP's evaluation program has made to the increasingly important field of technology impact assessment. The ATP has engaged leading economists and other evaluators to apply state-of-the-art evaluation techniques to assess the impact of the program.
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From page 62...
... In the aggregate, the expected benefits of stronger performers would outweigh total program costs to date. Strictly speaking, this level of return is not the goal of the ATP.
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