5. Foreign-Owned Participants in ATP Projects

From its inception in 1990 through September 2003, ATP has completed 106 foreign eligibility findings. Of these, 73 findings were for companies whose projects were selected as finalists for awards. The remaining findings were for companies seeking to join existing projects or to continue participating in existing ATP projects after experiencing a change in their ownership status.

The total number of findings does not correspond directly to the number of projects in which U.S. subsidiaries of foreign-owned companies sought participation. There are a few instances in which joint venture projects had more than one foreign-owned company seeking involvement, each requiring a separate foreign eligibility finding. Also, for a variety of reasons, the total number of findings does not correspond directly to the number of foreign-owned companies currently participating in projects.

The total number of findings includes findings for foreign-owned, U.S.-incorporated or U.S.-organized companies with parent companies incorporated in another country that (i) had positive findings, officially joined the projects, and are still currently participating in active projects; (ii) had positive findings, officially joined the projects, but have now completed their research; (iii) had positive findings, but for various reasons never participated in the project; (iv) had positive findings, but decided to take an informal role in projects, as a subcontractor, for instance; (v) had positive findings, but were in projects that did not receive an award for other reasons, or that were cancelled before the project started; (vi) had negative findings, and were not allowed to participate; (vii) were determined not to be U.S.-incorporated or U.S.-organized, and/or were determined not to have a parent company in another country, and were therefore ineligible to participate; or (viii) became majority U.S.-owned during the life of the project.

Only 2 of the 106 foreign eligibility findings carried out to date were negative. Both of these findings were for Japanese-owned firms; their failure to pass was due to the national policies of Japan at the time of the findings and not because of (or due to) any shortcomings of the companies.

Of the 709 projects in ATP's portfolio, 64 active and completed projects involve 80 participants that are foreign-owned, U.S.-incorporated (or organized) companies. Foreign-owned companies participate in less than 10% of total ATP-funded projects; 49 out of a total of 207 joint venture projects and 15 of 502 single-company projects. These 80 participants represent 75 foreign-owned companies from 15 different countries. A few of these companies are participating in more than one project. Specifics are provided in Tables 1 and 2:

• Table 1 lists foreign-owned companies participating in active and completed projects by their parent country.
• Table 2 lists active and completed projects involving foreign-owned companies by the fiscal year in which ATP issued an award to the project.

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Date created:  January 1998
Last updated: August 3, 2005

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