Director, Economic Assessment Office

Stephanie Shipp is the Director of the Economic Assessment Office in the Advanced Technology Program at the National Institute for Standards and Technology.  Stephanie directs a staff of economists and statisticians who conduct economic research and program evaluation that examines the transition from scientific innovation to commercial application.  Under her leadership, her staff conducts and analyzes surveys of ATP awardees, researches and publishes case studies on ATP projects, computes performance metrics, and directs studies with external researchers that contribute to the technology policy literature.  Stephanie is a member of the OECD working group on behavior additionality and an active participant of the Washington Research Evaluation Network (WREN).  Stephanie is a frequent presenter at SBIR and other industry conferences.

Stephanie brings to ATP a background in surveys, public finance, and research.  She started her career at the Federal Reserve Board, working on the Industrial Production Index.  She then moved to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, working on the design of the Producer Price Index analytical system.  Her next challenge was leading the information and analysis work for the Consumer Expenditure Survey and collaborating on research on income and expenditure inequality and poverty measurement.  Stephanie moved to the Census Bureau in 1997 to work on developing the Industry and Occupation coding system for the Census 2000, guiding the analytical efforts for a welfare reform survey, the Survey of Program Dynamics, and spearheading a major hiring effort for her division.  On a detail to the Office of the Secretary, Office of Budget, Stephanie led the Department of Commerce Strategic Planning effort for 2000-2005.  Stephanie and the Task Force received a Bronze Medal for their Strategic Planning work.

Stephanie is active in professional organizations and is a regular presenter and discussant at the American Statistical Association (ASA) annual meetings.  Currently, she is Chair of the ASA Government Statistics Section and a member of the Executive Committee of the Senior Executives Association’s Board of Directors.  Stephanie was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2002.  In the past, she was President of the Department of Commerce Senior Executives Association, the program chair for the National Economists Club and President of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.  Stephanie enjoys biking and running, competing in triathlons and local road races.  She volunteers at Arena Stage and the Shakespeare Theatre.  Married to Ken Shipp since 1973, they have two daughters.

Stephanie received a Ph.D. from George Washington University with specialties in public finance and demography.  She received a BA in economics from Trinity College, Washington D.C.

Recent publications:

Stanley, Marc, and Stephanie Shipp, Government’s Evolving Role in Supporting Corporate R&D—Theory and Practice in the Advanced Technology Program, The National Academy of Sciences, submitted in January 2006, expected publication, Fall 2006

Shipp, Stephanie, OECD Working Group Report:  “Measuring Behavior Additionality in ATP Joint Venture Projects: Findings from the U.S. Advanced Technology Program,” submitted for publication in April 2005. Expected publication date: Spring 2006

Shipp, Stephanie, Chang, Connie, and Wisniewski, Lorel, Evaluation Best Practices and Results: The Advanced Technology Program, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NISTIR-05-7174, May 2005 http://www.atp.nist.gov/eao/ir05-7174/contents.htm

Chang, Connie, Shipp, Stephanie, and Wang, Andrew, Venture Capital: An international journal of entrepreneurial finance, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 363-370, "The Advanced Technology Program: a public-private partnership for early stage technology development,” October-December 2002.

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