This is what
ATP can do for you:
- We can offer
early financial support to help you create sustainable
technical advantage. The
ATP provides cost-share funding in the critical early stages
of R&D, when research risks are too high for
other sources of funding. It’s very patient capital—interested
in the long run, not the next quarter’s earnings
report. The financial support is large. ATP commits approximately
$1M /year/project, cost shared by an equal or greater
amount by the award recipient. U.S. firms direct the research
goals.
- We can offer you, as industry participants,
title to intellectual property. The
ATP allows for-profit, U.S. companies to control
and retain the intellectual property rights to the
results of their research. However,
the federal government reserves a non-exclusive, non-transferable,
irrevocable, paid-up license to practice or have practiced
for or on behalf of the U.S. any patentable invention arising
from an ATP award.
- Our selection
criteria are written to encourage the integration of business with technical planning.
Projects that are proposed to us should be commercially
driven innovative approaches to developing new technologies.
ATP can provide you with resources on how to write
a business plan. In addition,
we hold workshops to help award recipients obtain
downstream private sector funds to perform further
technology development and product development after
their ATP project is completed.
- We can offer you recognition within industrial and
financial sectors. ATP’s
rigorous peer-review system
provides an independent, objective, and
confidential evaluation of the strength
of your R&D
and business plans. Many firms have reported
that winning an ATP award was an important
factor in securing additional funding.
Some refer to this as the “halo” effect.
- At this point
in time, you may find yourself
strategizing about how to pull
together your R&D team
and whether or not you want to
submit a proposal as a single applicant
or a joint venture. We can help
you explore these questions and find partners
through our website. ATP has developed an online
site, the
Alliance Network,
that you can use as a resource during these deliberations.
This site also includes a bulletin board where
you can look for partners -- anonymously, if you’d
like.
- Finally, we are a Program that is flexible and fair, but also firm.
Once your project begins, we will monitor your
progress, but will also stand by you should you
meet with difficulties such as personnel changes
or glitches in your research plan. We know and
understand that change happens. You
must, however, commit to being faithful to your
proposed project and our selection criteria.
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Date created: July
18, 2003
Last updated:
April 28, 2005
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