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ATP Fast FactsAre you looking for quick information on the Advanced Technology Program?  The Economic Assessment Office has written a series of factsheets that highlight the Advanced Technology Program's performance and provides insights into ATP's role in the economy.  Results are presented in categories that best describe the impacts of ATP funding, findings from one-time surveys, and ATP award statistics.  These categories include:

  • Performance Assessment and Metrics
  • Social, Economic, and Other Benefits
  • Funding Gap and Other Policy Research
  • Acceleration and High Risk Technology
  • Collaboration
  • Spillover and Diffusion
  • Commercialization
  • Technology Areas

A comprehensive index of our factsheets is listed in the table below. 

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1. IMPACTS OF ATP FUNDING
  A. PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT & METRICS
  1.A1. ATP Is Meeting Its Mission: Evidence from ATP Evaluation Studies [PDF]
  1.A2. Advanced Technology Program Actual Performance Measures for FY 2006 [PDF]
  1.A3. ATP's Evaluation Program and the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) [PDF]
  B. SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND OTHER BENEFITS
  1.B1. ATP’s Investment Return To The Nation [PDF]
  1.B2. ATP Improves Your Health and Quality Of Life [PDF]
  1.B3. ATP Improves Quality of Life for the Disabled [PDF]
  1.B4. ATP-Funded Technologies for the Aging [PDF]
  1.B5. ATP-Funded Research Promises Improved Food Safety and Quality [PDF]
  1.B6. Bringing Benefits of Digital Mammography and Radiography To More People [PDF]
  1.B7. Flow Control Machining Technology Enables Economic and Environmental Benefits [PDF]
  1.B8. ATP-Funded Optics Technology Produces Large Energy Savings in Petroleum Refineries and Distribution Systems [PDF]
  1.B9. ATP’s Investment In Component-Based Software Technology Generates Large Economic Benefits [PDF]
  1.B10. ATP Award Produces “Halo” Effect And Pursuit Of R&D In The Public Interest [PDF]
  1.B11. ATP Helps Firms Build New Capabilities and a Broader Social Network For Innovation [PDF]
  1.B12. ATP-Funded Technologies for Disaster Detection and Recovery [PDF]
  1.B13. ATP Helps Overcome Barriers to Green Technologies [PDF]
  1.B14. ATP's Investment in DNA Chip Technologies Accelerates Personalized Medicine [PDF]
  1.B15. ATP Investments Have Resulted in Substantial Revenue [PDF]
  C. FUNDING GAP AND OTHER POLICY RESEARCH ANALYSES
  1.C1. ATP and The States [PDF]
  1.C2. ATP Helps Bridge Gap Left By Venture Capitalists [PDF]
  1.C3. ATP Award Important For Early Stage Technology Development [PDF]
  1.C4. ATP Award Addresses Capital Market Inefficiencies for Developing Early Stage Technologies [PDF]
  1.C5. Findings from Analysis of ATP Companies and Venture Capital [PDF]
  1.C6. Understanding Regional Innovative Capacity [PDF]
  1.C7. New Method for Identifying Early Stage Technologies via Patent Analysis [PDF]
  1.C8. Venture Capital Investment by Funding Stage [PDF]
  1.C9. ATP and Venture Capital Funding Criteria Differ [PDF]
  1.C10. Venture Capital Funding is Heavily Concentrated in a Few Industries; ATP Funds All Sectors [PDF]
  1.C11. Venture Capital Funding by Phase of Technology is Increasingly Focusing on Later Stages [PDF]
  1.C12. Does a Funding Gap Exist for Seed Stage and StartUp Ventures? A Look at Angel Investors [PDF]
  D. ACCELERATION AND HIGH RISK TECHNOLOGY ANALYSES
  1.D1. ATP Stimulates Industry R&D Investment [PDF]
  1.D2. ATP Accelerates Technology Development [PDF]
  1.D3. Lessons from Unsuccessful Projects in the Advanced Technology Program [PDF]
  E. COLLABORATION ANALYSES
  1.E1. ATP Collaboration and Related Results [PDF]
  1.E2. Determinants of Success In ATP-Funded R&D Joint Ventures [PDF]
  1.E3. Participation In ATP-Funded Research Consortia Increases Patenting Activity [PDF]
  1.E4. ATP Partners With NIH To Accelerate the Human Genome Project [PDF]
  1.E5. Advanced Technology Program Collaborations Extend Beyond R&D [PDF]
 

F. SPILLOVER AND DIFFUSION ANALYSES
  1.F1. Customers Across Many Industries Enjoy Benefits From ATP-Funded Technology [PDF]
  1.F2. Diffusion Pathways for ATP-Funded Photonics Technologies [PDF]
  G. COMMERCIALIZATION ANALYSES
  1.G1. ATP-Funded Projects Are Realizing Commercial Success [PDF]
  1.G2. ATP Funds Early-Stage Technology Development: Evidence of Post-ATP Private Investments in R&D to Bring Technologies to Market (Findings from ATP-EAO’s Post-Project Survey) [PDF]
  1.G3. Time To Commercialization Differs Across Technologies [PDF]
  1.G4. Technology Adoption Indicators Help Determine the Likelihood of Technology Adoption [PDF]
  H. TECHNOLOGY AREA ANALYSES
  1.H1. ATP Funds Energy Research [PDF]
  1.H2. ATP-Funded Biotechnology Companies Show Large Gains in Technology Strength as Measured by the 2003 MIT Patent Scorecard [PDF]
  1.H3. ATP-Funded Projects in Telehealth [PDF]
2. SURVEY OF ATP JOINT VENTURES
  2.A1. Findings from the Survey of ATP Joint Ventures [PDF]
3. ATP AWARD STATISTICS (UPDATED ATP AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT)
  A. SUMMARY ATP DATA
  3.A1. Historical Statistics on Applications and Awards [PDF]
  3.A2. ATP Awards Summary Data, Project and Participation Table (Forty-Four Competitions, 1990-September 2004) [PDF]
  3.A3. ATP Awards Summary Data, Funding Table (Forty-Four Competitions, 1990-September 2004) [PDF]
  B. BY TECHNOLOGY AREA
  3.B1. ATP Awards Summary Data—Awards, Technology Area by Year [PDF]
  3.B2. ATP Awards Summary Data—Funding, Technology Area by Year [PDF]
  3.B3. Awards, Technology Area (Pie Chart) [PDF]
  C. BY STATE
  3.C1. Table of ATP Applications, Awards, Participants, by State (Forty-Four Competitions, 1990-September 2004) [PDF]
  3.C2. Map of ATP Applications, Awards, Participants, by State (Forty-Four Competitions, 1990-September 2004) [PDF]
  D. BY TYPE OF PARTICIPANT
  3.D1. Characteristics of ATP Award Winners (By Type of Applicant and Company Size) [PDF]
  3.D2. Distribution of Funding of 768 ATP Awards, By Type of Participant [PDF]
  3.D3. ATP Supports Small Business [PDF]
  3.D4. How Small Is a “Small” ATP Firm? [PDF]
  3.D5. Does Size of “Small” Firm Affect Type of Project Participation in ATP? [PDF]
  3.D6. Has The Size of “Small” ATP Firms Changed Over Time? [PDF]
  3.D7. Characteristics of Large Firms in ATP Projects [PDF]
  3.D8. University Participation in ATP Projects: 44 Competitions (1990-September 2004) [PDF]
  4. CUSTOMER SATISFACTION SURVEY RESULTS
  4.A1. ATP Customer Satisfaction Survey Highlights from the 2002 Competition 
  4.A2. Applicant Perceptions of the ATP Proposal Process 
  4.A3. Applicant Views of the ATP Proposal Preparation Kit and Electronic Submission System (ESS) 
  4.A4. Applicant Views of the Usefulness of ATP Information Sources 
  4.A5. Applicant Satisfaction With ATP Staff 
  4.A6. ATP Proposal Debriefing: Nonawardee Views
  4.A7. Time and Cost for ATP Proposal Preparation
  OTHER FACTSHEETS OF INTEREST
    COMPETING FOR THE FUTURE:  An Analysis of ATP Funding in Photonics and Optical Technologies

Date created:  April 14, 2005
Last updated: September 26, 2007

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