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4. Strategies For Overcoming Commercialization Barriers
4. Strategies For Overcoming Commercialization Barriers
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Find ing: The most difficult and critical step in the commercialization of a material is scaling-up from laboratory quantities to precommercial and eventually commercial quantities. The federal government has supported such development on occasion, especially through programs initiated by DOD including the Title III 47
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The strategy suggested is that: · The federal government could establish a clearinghouse activity to serve as a single source of readily available information containing relevant aspects of all federally funded materials programs that spanned the range of basic research through pilot production. The information would describe the materials being developed and commercialized under federal sponsorship, the funding levels, milestones, and so on.
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Future commercial applications of advanced materials will almost always include potential markets beyond initial government applications, however. Ignoring potential commercial requirements can severely limit the market for new materials and increase production costs.
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Moreover, many of these factors are part of the dynamic debate within all three branches of the federal government, and undergo continual change. For instance, tax incentives, government procurement policies, and intellectual property protection clauses are the subject of numerous legislative actions and judicial decisions within the course of a year.
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Direct links between the material suppliers and the end users would provide the materials industry with first-hand knowledge of user needs and the users with first-hand appreciation of capabilities within the materials industry. Such a strategy is suggested: An informal interactive forum, implemented on an individua/ basis or an industry-wide basis, could allow the necessary interchange of information and improve market pull and product focus for material producers.
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However' the insertion of improved materials to incrementally improve existing products can be an attractive way to use an existing market to build demand for an advanced material, even though it may not exploit the material to its fullest capability. System developers should incorporate into their design and manufacturing scheme the potential to quickly insert new materials technology at any point in the lifetime of the product, not just during the initial design.
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University-led continuing education programs for experienced design engineers and manufacturing engineers can bring this community up-to-date with new materials whose properties do not necessarily parallel their experience base with metals. It would usually be far more cost-effective to bring these professionals back to the university environment to gain additional knowledge than to learn by trial-and-error in their normal work environment.
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ALL SECTORS WORKING TOGETHER Finding: Commercialization of materials would be facilitated by greater standardization of design data bases and development of international standards. Within the federal government, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is the agency most heavily involved in such endeavors.
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. Greater standardization of design-related materials property data bases is necessary to facilitate the widespread application of new materials and thus increase the size and number of potential markets.
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