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Measuring ATP Impact 2004 Report on Economic Progress A Message About This ReportThe mission of the Advanced Technology Program (ATP), a public-private partnership, is to encourage companies to develop innovative and high-risk technologies for broad national benefit. One of our best practices is a rigorous and comprehensive evaluation program that measures the economic impact of funding high-risk, enabling technologies. In addition, we seek to increase understanding of underlying relationships between technological change and economic phenomena. The National Academy of Sciences has praised ATP's evaluation program as "one of the most rigorous and intensive efforts of any U.S. technology programs." We are pleased to announce the release of ATP’s first Report on Economic Progress. The report draws upon our multifaceted evaluation portfolio to provide the technology, industry, evaluation, and policymaking communities, as well as the general public, with important facts, data, and analyses about ATP. The Report on Economic Progress presents findings from our economic and policy studies and provides data about ATP-funded project outputs, outcomes, and impacts on the U.S. economy and society. For instance, entrepreneurs will be interested to learn that one-third of the applicants from the 2000 ATP competition had fewer than 10 employees. Innovators will find that, to date, almost 1,200 patents have resulted from just 736 ATP projects. Award statistics from all our competitions present an aggregate view of our program, and short case studies provide snapshots of a few completed projects. We hope you find this report interesting and informative. We welcome your comments.
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