Development, commercialization, and diffusion of enabling technologies:

Abstract

The Advanced Technology Program (ATP), administered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, partners with U.S. industry to develop high risk and enabling technologies, with significant potential for stimulating U.S. economic growth. Industry submits proposals containing a research plan for the work to be performed, an explanation of how the nation broadly will benefit from the new technical capability, a business plan for future commercialization of goods and services that may derive from the technology, plans for diffusing the technology beyond the innovators, and a project budget indicating the proposed cost-share arrangement. In a highly competitive process, a peer review panel, involving a mix of technical experts and business and economic experts, selects projects for funding. Once the projects are selected, the ATP staff monitors them and evaluates progress and impacts. An important component of ATP's economic evaluation plan for tracking project progress and outcomes is the administration of an electronic survey on a regular basis to all project participants funded since 1993 to determine progress of projects compared with business plans and projected economic benefit goals outlined in their proposals. The resulting Business Reporting System (BRS) database is intended for use for ATP project management, as well as for evaluation research. This report summarizes BRS data covering periods through December 31, 1996, filed by 480 companies in 210 ATP projects, funded in 19 competitions during FY 1993-1995. The report provides an overview of pathways to achieving targeted commercial and broader economic goals; a status report of completed R&D; an analysis of commercialization and technology diffusion activities; and analyses of other effects of ATP funding, such as stimulation of R&D collaborations, and increased private sector investment in high risk and enabling R&D.

Different timelines for different technologies:

“…The present study partially updates the earlier statistical studies by Powell and Lellock (2000) and Powell (1999) and also extends those analyses to examine variation by technology area. Powell and Lellock (2000) is a general report on commercialization progress of ATP projects based on the BRS database through 1997. Powell (1999) focused on small firms in comparison with larger firms.…”

“…The present study follows a series of case-study status reports of ATP's completed projects by Long (1999) and ATP (2001) and statistical studies by Powell (1999) and Powell and Lellock (2000). The status report volumes were the first ATP studies to examine technical and commercialization performance by technology area.…”

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“…Affymetrix's largest government award in the startup phase of the company came from the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the Tools for DNA Diagnostics Focused Program competition in 1994. In its reports documenting the successes of its programs, the ATP lists Affymetrix as one of its banner projects [ 17 ]. The ATP program was started in 1990 to stimulate new science-based research ventures and to encourage joint ventures among universities, industry, research organizations, and consortia of companies.…”

Quantitative Methoden der Evaluierung technologiepolitischer Programme

“…Ferner werden periodisch Statusberichte über abgeschlossene Projekte erstellt (siehe Powell 1997, Long 1999, Ruegg 2000 …”