What is Technology Transfer at NASA's Johnson Space Center
In simplest terms, NASA's technology transfer is the process by which space technology developed by NASA is transfered to businesses for another purpose.

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What are the benefits of technology transfer?
  • Stimulates our economy.
  • Increases competitiveness within the private sector.
  • Gains visibility within the technical community.
  • Benefits professionally and financially.
  • Promotes innovation and creativity with NASA technology.
  • Allows the use of NASA's vast technical resources.
There are several ways in which private companies can work with NASA and reap the many benefits. Learn more about licensing opportunities and small business research & development programs, receive technology assistance, and tap into some of the most technologically advanced resources in the United States at NASA.
Success Stories
Many times in exploring the "frontiers" of aeronautics and space the work done by NASA scientists and engineers will have application to problems of the "earth-bound." In one remarkable example, engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center, using computational fluid dynamics techniques and advanced pump technology that were developed for the space program, invented a miniaturized, highly efficient BLOOD PUMP more...

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Updated: 11/18/2003
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