Acknowledgments

I gratefully acknowledge the helpful discussions and comments with Jeanne Powell, Gerald Ceasar and Kathleen McTigue (NIST Advanced Technology Program) during the course of this study. I thank the ATP reviewers, Stephanie Shipp, Connie Chang, Elissa Sobolewski, and Lorel Wisniewski. Brian Belanger, former Deputy Director of ATP, provided additional comments. In addition, a special thank you to each of the people that I interviewed. I especially thank Dr. Norman Hackerman, my thesis advisor who got me started on the right track many years ago. His insight into the nature of the transition from a research project to a viable commercial product (in Conversations on the Uses of Science and Technology by Norman Hackerman and Kenneth Ashworth, Univerisity of North Texs Press, Denton, TX, 1996) cuts through the mysterious concepts that surround the transition between research and a final commercial product.

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