Moving
technology from laboratories to the marketplace is the challenge
following discovery. The federal government has many resources to
foster such technology transfer.
The Robert
C. Byrd National Technology Transfer Center is a full-service
technology-management center that helps organizations identify commercially
promising discoveries, market them to American industry, and build
partnerships turning inventions into products. Congress established
the NTTC in 1989.
Guided by a mission to aid economic development through matching
federally funded research with U.S. private industry, the NTTC offers
a complete line of products and services enabling American businesses
to find technologies, facilities and world-class researchers within
the federal labs and universities needed to remain on the cutting
edge of innovation.
The Federal
Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) is the nationwide
network of federal laboratories that provides the forum to develop
strategies and opportunities for linking the laboratory mission
technologies and expertise with the marketplace. The FLC was organized
in 1974 and formally chartered by the Federal Technology Transfer
Act of 1986 to promote and to strengthen technology transfer nationwide.
Today, more than 700 major federal laboratories and centers and
their parent departments and agencies are FLC members.
See also Mechanisms
for Accessing Federal Resources.
Agriculture
Research Service (ARS) continually looks for opportunities
to partner with private sector businesses, other federal agencies,
state and local governments, universities, and its customers. These
partnerships are designed to augment research programs, expedite
research results to the private sector, exchange information and
knowledge, stimulate new business and economic development, enhance
U.S. trade, preserve the environment, and improve the quality of
life for all Americans.
Tech Transfer Resources
Federal
Technology Transfer Offices on the Internet
This guide links technology searchers to technology transfer offices
or centers at Federal Laboratories and related sites, highlighting
unique features at each site. It is arranged by Federal Department
or Agency, then alphabetically by name. This guide is maintained
by the Technology Transfer Information Center, National Agricultural
Library, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department
of Agriculture.
American
Society for Engineering Education
Annual
Report on Technology Transfer: Approach and Plans
FY 2002 Activities and Achievements, Dept. of Commerce (DoC)
DoC Technology Administration, Innovation
in American: University R&D
Workshop report, June 2002
Intellectual
Property Resources, including patent and trademark information
and public policy. U.S.D.A. Technology Transfer Information Center,
National Agricultural Library
Society
of Research Administrators International, Grant Resources page
with information on public, private and Government grants. Also,
the Resource
Guide, a comprehensive list of public and private funding assistance
resources.
Summary
report on Federal Laboratory Technology Transfer
2002 Report to the President and Congress on the Technology Transfer
and Commercialization Act.
Other reports, including key competitiveness areas, are available
at the DoC Technology
Administration website.
University/Industry
Collaborations, National
Council of University Research Administrators
At
this early stage of its development, an important mechanism by which
nanotechnology can find its way into commercial applications is
through interaction among industry, academic, and government researchers.
See National Nanofabrication
Infrastructure Network (NNIN), other R&D
User Facilities, and DoE Nanoscale
Science Research Centers (NSRCs), each with a specific focus,
to be co-located at Federal laboratories across the country.
See also Funding Opportunities.
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