Advanced Technology Program Challenges and Opportunities (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Panel V: Extending Assessment—Challenges and Opportunities
Panel V: Extending Assessment—Challenges and Opportunities
Pages 98-110
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lain Cockburn set the stage for the panel by commenting on the tension between a publicly funded program, such as the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) , and granting proprietary rights to technology developed by recipients.
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To merit funding, an industry-initiated project proposed to the ATP has to be focused on an enabling, high-risk technology that has the potential for broad economic benefits. These selection criteria reflect the ultimate long-term goal of the program to achieve greater productivity growth in the economy as a whole through technical advances that become incorporated in industrial processes, and new products and services.
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involves an initial baseline report, annual reports submitted during the life of the project, and a closeout report collected at the end of the project. For six years after the project has concluded, the EAO plans to conduct a series of follow-up interviews with the technical and business leads of the project in each ATP-funded organization and with their counterparts in other organizations that did not receive ATP funds but are now using the ATP-funded technology, pursuing specific applications of the technology, or building upon the ATP-funded technology in a related area.
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R&D Partnering and Information Sharing The ATP supports innovative activity in a number of different technical fields and in a variety of industry contexts. How a firm organizes its partnering relationships, how it learns about relevant technical advances by other R&D organizations, and the ways in which it shares information (and how much it shares)
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When the venture brings together complementary expertise in different fields, we expect that new products or process innovations based on these combined capabilities will be introduced sooner than if these firms had proceeded independently of one another. Moreover, to the extent that ATP support enhances a company's capability to collaborate with other organizations on R&D projects, we expect participating organizations to continue to form new collaborative ventures and to sustain the cooperative activities with their joint venture partners after the ATP project has ended.
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These alliances may involve potential customers, or involve companies with complementary technical or business expertise. In addition, all ATP award recipients report on the papers published by scientists and engineers, and provide data on patent applications and awards related to the ATP project.
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If the acquiring firm develops and brings to market technologies related to the ATP project, then the social benefits from the ATP' s investment may be positive, even though the funded company was unable to reap much, if any, of that benefit. Hence, the post-project data collection effort is designed to distinguish between cases in which the technology "lives" but the firm "dies" and cases in which both the technology and the firm "die" together.
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In addition, future policy makers will benefit from the research that we are conducting now on the ways in which public-private partnering arrangements facilitate the development of technologies and how the resulting R&D activities bring about broad-based economic benefits. Finally, our research also should shed light on the nation's innovation system, especially in providing a more detailed map of the pathways through which technological change contributes to economic growth and to the productivity increases necessary to sustain and improve the standard of living of Americans in the next century.
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Empirical Analysis For the empirical work, the basic idea was to find or develop a measure of the quality of health care, and that this is depends on a variety of things. In past econometric work, economists used tax rates, existence of various kinds of health insurance plans (e.g., prospective payment plans)
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The kinds of questions that Lehr and Lichtenburg asked were whether ATP grants were used for purposes consistent with the ATP's goals, and how ATP's selection process could be improved. Lehr and Lichtenburg looked at two companies: Instream, a Massachusetts company developing electronic commerce solutions for hospitals; and Sunquest, a company developing alert systems, in which pagers transmit information to doctors about patients' conditions.
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Dr. Vonortas and his colleagues at George Washington developed a database of research joint ventures using filings from the Department of Justice (DoJ)
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Vonortas pointed out that the number of ATP grants to joint ventures has grown noticeably since 1994 and 1995; this increase coincides with the start of focused programs at the ATP. In terms of technologies, there is no difference in the distribution of technology areas pursued by ATP joint ventures versus non-ATP joint ventures.
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Steve Isaac from IBC Advanced Technologies made an observation about intellectual property protection. From the perspective of a company that has received ATP grants as a single applicant, he said that strong intellectual property protection is an important incentive to participation in the program.
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