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6917 ABOUT THE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMThe Advanced Technology Program (ATP) is a partnership between government and private industry to conduct high-risk research to develop enabling technologies that promise significant commercial payoffs and widespread benefits for the economy. The ATP provides a mechanism for industry to extent its technological research and push the envelope beyond what it otherwise would attempt. Promising future technologies are the domain of the ATP
The ATP funds technical research, but it does not fun product development (that is the domain of the company partners). The ATP is industry driven, and that keeps it grounded in real-world needs. For-profit companies conceive, propose, co-fund, and execute all of the projects cost-shared by ATP. Smaller firms working on single-company projects pay a minimum of all the indirect costs associated with the project. Large, "Fortune 500" companies participating as a single company pay at least 60 percent of total project costs. Joint ventures pay at least half of total project costs. Single-company projects can last up to three years; joint ventures can last as long as five years. Companies of all sizes participate in ATP-funded projects. To date, more than half of ATP awards have gone to individual small businesses or to joint ventures led by a small business. Each project has specific goals, funding allocations, and completion dates established at the outset. Projects are monitored and can be terminated for cause before completion. All projects are selected in rigorous, competitions, which use peer review to identify those that score highest against technical and economic criteria. Contact ATP for more information:
ABOUT THE AUTHORSJeanne Powell is Senior Economist and Group Leader in the Economic Assessment Office, ATP, where she develops and implements data collection and metrics systems for ATP’s program evaluation plan. She developed ATP’s Business Reporting System and has published a number of reports of ATP progress, including Development, Commercialization, and Diffusion of Enabling Technologies: Progress Report (2000), and Business Planning and Progress of Small Firms Engaged in Technology Development Through the Advanced Technology Program (1999). Her previous experience includes private practice as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Professor of Economics, Business Statistics, and Accounting at Montgomery College, and government economics positions. Francisco Moris is currently an economist with the Division of Science Resources Statistics, National Science Foundation, where he supports NSF’s statistical and analytical efforts, including the biennial Science and Engineering Indicator’s Report. Prior to joining NSF, he was a member of the staff of the Economic Assessment Office, ATP, where he performed the work contained in this study. Previous to that he was an economist with the Congressional Research Service and Bureau of Labor Statistics. In addition to degrees in Chemistry and Economics, he is currently completing graduate work in the International Science and Technology Policy Program at George Washington University. Return to Table of Contents. |
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