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... It plays a strong role as well in the activities of our Manufacturing Extension Partnership and the Baldrige National Quality Program. So of course when we received the assignment to create and manage the Advanced Technology Program (ATP)
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... The first major report appeared in 1993, a survey examining the early impacts on participating companies of the first 11 ATP projects after a year of work. The ATP established its Economic Assessment Office to oversee a wide range of data-gathering and analysis efforts including basic data collection, case studies, surveys, and macroeconomic modeling.
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... RECENT ASSESSMENT OF THE PROGRAM'S ECONOMIC BENEFITS The ATP is probably the most thoroughly studied program of its kind in the world. My current stack of reports, studies, analyses, and analyses of analyses on the ATP is about 9.5 centimeters deep, or about a centimeter or so of report for every year of the program's existence.
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... Center for Economics Research completed a study that was intended to develop a prototype methodology for predicting the long-term social benefits of public investment in technology development. RTI analyzed probable partial outcomes for seven ATP projects in the field of tissue engineering.
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... ASSESSING COMPLETED PROJECTS Today we are adding a new report to the stack, a summary study by economist William F Long, called "Performance of Completed Projects," which examines the first set of completed ATP projects.3 This is the first comprehensive review of the outcomes to date of the ATP portfolio, and the first of a series of studies following up on the results of ATP investments.
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... The challenge is to do so in a rigorous and credible way that will satisfy the requirements of the public policy makers in Congress and the administration. Our goal in this workshop is to address those measurement and assessment issues.
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