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NIST Video Highlights ATP Role in Technology Innovation

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For 10 years, the NIST Advanced Technology Program has worked to spur the development of path-breaking new technologies by providing cost-shared funding for potentially valuable but high-risk R&D projects. Nearly 200 projects have been completed, and more than 200 currently are under way. In industry after industry-medical diagnostics, semiconductor manufacturing, automobiles, telecommunications, information technology, electronics, high-performance composites, biotechnology-the United States can offer the world's markets many leading-edge technologies that we wouldn't have without the ATP.

The video features interviews with industry research managers that highlight how the program enables breakthrough technologies in a wide variety of fields, promotes the formation of cooperative R&D consortia, and offers valuable early support to small entrepreneurial technology firms.

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Date created: May 22, 2000
Last updated: June 14, 2005

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