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9 Government-Industry Joint R&D Ventures: Bridging the Gap Between the Laboratory and the Marketplace
9 Government-Industry Joint R&D Ventures: Bridging the Gap Between the Laboratory and the Marketplace
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NIST has a substantial chemistry presence throughout its laboratories, including the Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, Materials Science Engineering Laboratory, Physics Laboratory, and Building and Fire Research Laboratory. The other two components of NIST are the Manufacturing Extension Program (MEP)
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Thus, the real challenge for the 21st century is rapidly commercializing the fundamental innovations created in the universities and national labs. However, between the two ends of this spectrum there is a large gap, where an enormous amount of early-stage technology development work still needs to be done.
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Christopher Hill discussed the rise and demise of the Technology Reinvestment Project (TRP)
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were developed during the 1980s when the focus was on collaboration. The SBIR program was created in 1982 by the Small Business Innovation Development Act to help small companies defined as 500 or fewer employees advance their innovative ideas and support their research that could lead to significant commercialization and public benefit if successful.
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In fact, we just released a status report of the first 38 completed ATP projects, Performance of Completed Projects: Status Report Number 1.2 The status report identified seven projects as potential home runs. When I identify a project as a home run, it must not only have a product in the marketplace, it must also offer big economic benefits.
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is not only wonderful because of how it captures the prestige felt by ATP participants, but also because it allows me to highlight the fact that we have a number of not-for-profit companies that successfully lead joint ventures. OAI is one of them and so is the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, which Christopher Hill mentioned in his presentation.
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Now the U.S. printed wiring board industry is making a comeback, with its market share rising from the low twenties
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Most importantly, this group of six companies, through government cost sharing, brought an industry back. The final success I wanted to share with you is one of the home runs from the status report mentioned above.
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As to why we are achieving big benefits, I think it is attributable to our focus on the potential economic benefit and understanding why these people need the ATP. We only fund the development of new technologies that are expected to have widespread beneficial effects extending well beyond the innovators.
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Any prohibitions with that? Lura Powell: Actually what we look at as the payback mechanism is job creation and company growth and the economic benefits that go to others outside the ATP award recipients what economists call the "spillover benefits." Basically there is a much bigger impact in the longer run as higher-quality jobs are created, industry sectors are strengthened by technology-induced productivity gains, and the tax base grows.
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