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Agricultural Research and Technologies

BIOFUELS Home Page: highlights ARS and USDA Biofuels and Biodiesel research, including new technology descriptions, current projects and research, points-of-contact, and links to Internet resources on biofuels.
CO-AgRA - Capitalizing on Opportunities in Agriculture for Rural America: links users to USDA-wide food and fiber research activities, technology development opportunities, and business resources such as funding, market, and rural development opportunities.
CRIS - Current Research Information System: The CRIS/USDA online database contains information on ongoing and recently completed research projects sponsored or conducted primarily within the USDA and State university agricultural research system. About 35,000 project summaries, including latest progress reports and lists of recent publications coming out of the research, are currently in this database.
TEKTRAN Database: enables the food & fiber research and business communities to locate new ARS research findings prior to publication, as well as identify potential areas of collaboration with ARS scientists.

The Agricultural Research Service's Office of Technology Transfer has patents available for licensing:: Biobased Products; Biotechnology; Crop Production; Food Safety and Health; Natural Resources; Animal Production
They also have a listing of CRADA (cooperative research and development agreement) Opportunities
Forming Partnerships With the Agricultural Research Service: An online brochure with information about CRADAs, licensing patents and other methods of partnering with ARS
New Technology Profiles:: ARS Eastern Regional Research Center; ARS Western Regional Research Center; ARS Southern Regional Research Center; ARS Research Locations

Agricultural Research Magazine: Information about Agricultural Research Service research and activities
ARS News Service: ARS news and information. Also available via email
ARS Tech Transfer News: Recent Agricultural Research Service stories that feature some form of technology transfer agreement or opportunity.
ARS Research Projects and Directories
ARS/USDA Quarterly Report of Selected Research Projects Newsletter
News from the ARS Information Service: Includes newsletters, press releases, publications, and the photo gallery.
Technology Transfer Agreements with the ARS
The Transfer of Public Science to Patented Technology: A Case Study in Agricultural Science: presents the results of a study for the Agricultural Research Service (USDA) by CHI Research, Inc. Patent citations are analyzed to measure the effectiveness of technology transfer and research efforts. (1997)

Government Technologies

Federal Technology Transfer Offices: list new technologies and technologies available for licensing
Federal technology transfer mechanisms for working with federal labs.
Database of Current Research from the Federal Laboratory Consortium, Midcontinental Chapter.
NASA TechFinder database
NASA Commercial Technology Network: list new technologies from all NASA laboratories.

New Technology and Research Databases

Patent Resources

The Technology Transfer FAQ: contains basic information on obtaining copies of patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, filing for a patent, and locating patent office equivalents in other countries.
Patent Cafe: Portal for patent information and discussion groups on the web
Tech Transfer resources on the Internet
The following search engines allow patent searching (some free/some fee based):: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Search System; Esp@cenet - Worldwide Patents; Delphion Intellectual Property Network - formerly IBM IPN; Micropatent; QPAT-US

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