SURVEY OF
ATP APPLICANTS 2000
6. ATP Promotes Public Benefits and Knowledge
Diffusion
In order
to accelerate innovative technology for broad national benefit, the Advanced
Technology Program (ATP) seeks to fund projects that promote public benefits,
knowledge creation, and knowledge dissemination. Evidence from the
Survey of ATP Applicants 2000 indicates that ATP fosters proposals
with public benefits and strong potential for knowledge creation
and diffusion.
Survey respondents
were asked to indicate the extent to which:
- knowledge
and results from their proposed project would
be public in nature
- knowledge
from the project would be actively disseminated
through publications and presentations
Respondents
were also asked to indicate how important patent
or copyright is as a means of establishing intellectual
property and creating value from the R&D project.
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Most ATP
applicants indicate that they believe that knowledge and results
from their proposed project would be public in nature
- 50 percent of applicants
report that they believe results from their project would be public
in nature to a "large extent;" 34 percent of applicants
report to a "moderate extent." (See Figure 1.)
Most ATP
applicants indicate that they plan to actively disseminate knowledge
from the project through publication or presentation of results
- 43 percent of applicants
report that they plan to actively disseminate knowledge to a "large
extent;" 36 percent of applicants report to a "moderate
extent." (See Figure 1.)
FIGURE
1. Applicant Beliefs Regarding the Extent to which Project Knowledge
would be Public and Actively Disseminated
[Descriptive link for Figure 1]
 Nearly
all ATP applicants report that patent or copyright is important as
a means of establishing intellectual property and creating value
from their proposed project
- Patent or copyright
provides legal protection of specified intellectual property. As
such, a patent or copyright identifies specific knowledge creation
and publishes a public record of the specific knowledge. The importance
of patent or copyright to ATP applicants indicates the likelihood
of knowledge creation and dissemination from ATP supported R&D
projects.
- 83 percent of all
applicants report that patent or copyright is "extremely important" (56%)
or "very important" (27%) as a means of protecting intellectual
property and creating value from their proposed ATP project. Another
12 percent report that it is "somewhat important." (See
Figure 2.)
FIGURE
2. Applicant Beliefs on the Importance of Patent or Copyright for
Project Results
[Descriptive link for Figure
2]
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Date created:
June 24, 2003
Last updated:
August 2, 2005
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