SURVEY OF ATP APPLICANTS 2000
4. ATP Fosters New R&D Directions and Partnerships

Through its cost-shared funding, the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) encourages companies to pursue new research directions that have the potential to lead to path-breaking technologies. ATP also encourages Research and Development (R&D) collaborations among companies and with other organizations to encourage infrastructural technical change across an industry and to address technology challenges that are larger than one company could address alone. Evidence from the Survey of ATP Applicants 2000 shows that ATP is successfully fostering new directions and partnerships.

Nearly all ATP applicants report their proposed project represented a new R&D direction for their industry or technology field

• 92 percent of applicants say their project was a new direction for their industry or technology field to a "large extent" or a "moderate extent." (See Figure 1.)
  

FIGURE 1. Extent to which Proposed ATP Project Represents a New
                    R&D Direction for the Industry or Technology Field


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Most ATP applicants report their proposed project fostered new individual ties, new company partnerships, or stronger company relationships

• 69 percent of ATP applicants report their project fostered new individual ties to a "large extent" or a "moderate extent." (See Figure 2.)
• 61 percent of ATP applicants report their project fostered new company partnerships to a "large extent" or a "moderate extent." (See Figure 3.)
  
• 59 percent of ATP applicants report their project fostered stronger company relationships to a "large extent" or a "moderate extent." (See Figure 4.)

FIGURE 2. Extent to which ATP Project Proposal Fostered
                    New Individual Ties or Contacts with Other Organizations

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FIGURE 3. Extent to which ATP Project Proposal Fostered
                    New Company Partnerships with Other Organizations

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FIGURE 4. Extent to which ATP Project Proposal Fostered
                    Stronger Company Relationships with Other Organizations

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Joint Venture applicants are more likely than Single Company applicants to report that their proposed project fostered new ties and company relationships

• 62 percent of Joint Venture applicants report new individual ties or contacts to a "large extent," compared to 28 percent for Single Company applicants. (See Figure 5.)
• 43 percent of "large extent," compared to 24 percent for Single Company Joint Venture applicants report new company partnerships to a applicants.
• 36 percent of Joint Venture applicants report stronger company relationships to a "large extent," compared to 23 percent for Single Company applicants.

FIGURE 5. New Ties and Company Relationships:
                    Single Company versus Joint Venture Applicants

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Date created: June 24, 2003
Last updated: August 2, 2005

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