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7161 About the AuthorsJohn M. Nail is an economist in the Advanced Technology Program's (ATP's) Economic Assessment Office. His general research interests include the economics of innovation, patenting, and venture capital. He spoke at a conference on military fuel cell applications held in Arlington, Virginia, in September 2004 and presented a paper on the commercial outcomes of ATP projects at the 2003 Western Economic Conference in Denver, Colorado. Before joining ATP, he conducted economic analyses of legal and regulatory matters, assisted in expert witness testimony involving price-fixing in the sports apparel and prescription drug markets, and developed an economic valuation of employee stock options. Dr. Nail holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina; his areas of expertise include health care economics, industrial organization, and applied financial economics. Gary Anderson is an economist in the ATP Economic Assessment Office. His professional experience includes teaching at the undergraduate and MBA levels, as well as consulting for business and international organizations. His research includes work on technology transfer, spillovers from technology, and the economics of innovation. He served this past year as a member of the ATP Electronics and Photonics Selection Board, which reviews fuel cell applications. He presented a paper on differences in technical innovation between small and large firms in ATP at the 2004 American Statistical Association meetings. Dr. Anderson has lived in Mexico and Indonesia, and has traveled throughout Europe and Asia. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland. Gerald Ceasar is a program manager for the ATP Electronics and Photonics Technology Office, and led the Premium Power focused program. His current areas of interest include advanced power technologies, photovoltaic applications, fuel cells, advanced batteries and ultra capacitors, and thin-film large-area electronics. He has a nascent interest in molecular electronics materials and device technologies that look beyond CMOS silicon and that utilize nano- and self-assembly molecular technologies. He joined ATP in 1994, after a career in industry at BP America and Xerox in a variety of research management and technical positions. Earlier, he was an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Rochester. Dr. Ceasar earned his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Columbia University and held postdoctoral fellowships at Cal Tech and Oxford University sponsored by the National Science Foundation and NATO, respectively. He has authored over 80 research papers that have been published or presented at professional meetings and holds several patents. Christopher J. Hansen was most recently an intern at ATP and is now a doctoral candidate in economic geography at Oxford University. He is a member of the research team at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, focusing on electricity regulation and supply issues in developing countries. His current research evaluates how liberalization of the Indian electricity market will enable new technology adoption, specifically the use of distributed electricity generation (e.g., wind-diesel hybrid systems). He may be contacted at chris.hansen@oxfordenergy.org. Mr. Hansen holds a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering from Kansas State University and a master's in technology policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked in the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment. 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. ATP provides a mechanism for industry to extend its technological reach and push the envelope beyond what it otherwise would attempt. Promising future technologies are the domain of ATP:
ATP funds technical research, but it does not fund product development ¾ that is the domain of the company partners. 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; these projects often include universities, and other nonprofit organizations. Smaller firms working on single-company projects pay a minimum of all the indirect costs associated with the project. Large, " Fortune 500" companies participating in single-company projects must pay at least 60 % of total project costs. Participants of joint venture projects pay at least half of total project costs. Single-company projects can last up to three years; joint venture projects can last as long as five years. Companies of all sizes participate in ATP-funded projects. To date, nearly two out of three 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 that use peer review to identify those that score highest against technical and economic criteria. Contact ATP for more information:
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