SURVEY OF
ATP APPLICANTS 2000
7. ATP Awards Attract Additional Funding
Company researchers
often have difficulty obtaining funds for high-risk research, whether
from internal company resources or from external sources of support.
Through its cost-shared funding, the Advanced Technology Program (ATP)
provides leverage to and validation of company efforts in high-risk research.
Evidence from the Survey of ATP Applicants 2000 shows that an
ATP award helps the company to attract additional funding to a research
area.
Respondents
were asked to estimate:
- the
amount of funding their company devoted to the
research area represented by their proposed ATP
project in the 3 years leading up to the proposal
- the
amount of funding committed to the research area
since proposal submission
Respondents
also were asked to indicate how much of the funding
came from internal company sources, and how much
from external sources (government programs or
outside investors). |
 ATP
awards attract additional funding from internal company sources
- In the 3 years prior
to submitting the proposal, ATP awardees on average devoted $490,000
in funding from internal sources to the research area represented
by the proposed ATP project. Since submitting the proposal, company
funding commitments increased to $1.4 million on average. (See Figure
1.)
- By comparison, nonawardees
on average experienced no change in funding from internal sources
in the research area of the proposed ATP project.
- Among ATP awardees,
72 percent indicate that funding from internal sources has increased
since submitting the proposal, while among nonawardees only 28 percent
indicate that internal funding has increased.
FIGURE
1. Funding from Internal Sources Devoted to Research Area Represented
by Proposed ATP Project
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1]
 ATP
awards attract additional funding from extrnal sources
- In the 3 years prior
to submitting the proposal, ATP awardees on average devoted $140,000
in funding from external sources to the research area represented
by the proposed ATP project. Since submitting the proposal, funding
commitments from external sources (excluding ATP) increased to $640,000
on average. (See Figure 2.)
- By comparison, nonawardees
on average experienced a decline in funding from external sources
in the research area of the proposed ATP projects.
- Among ATP awardees,
35 percent indicate that funding from external sources has increased
since submitting the proposal, while among nonawardees only 18 percent
indicate that external funding has increased.
FIGURE
2. Applicant Beliefs on the Importance of Patent or Copyright for
Project Results
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2]
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Date created:
June 24, 2003
Last updated:
August 2, 2005
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