Understanding Private-Sector Decision Making for Early-Stage
Technology Development
A “Between Invention and Innovation Project” Report

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The report summarizes the results of seven months of interviews with dozens of R&D executives representing many of the nation’s largest and most influential industrial firms. The interviews, as well as additional supporting analysis, were carried out during the years 2001 and 2002 by Booz Allen & Hamilton (BAH) analysts as a core component of the Between Invention and Innovation (BII) project at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. The BII project was led by Lewis Branscomb (Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management, emeritus, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) and Philip Auerswald (Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Science, and Technology and Policy, School of Public Policy, George Mason University). Brian Min contributed substantial research and writing to the project. The BAH team was led by Nicholas Demos (Vice President, Strategy Practice), Gerald Adolph (Senior Vice President), Rhonda Germany (Vice President, Consumer and Health Practice), and Raman Muralidharan (Vice President, Consumer and Health Practice). We wish to thank Connie Chang, Supervisory Economist at the Advanced Technology Program and the project’s Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative, for her guidance on the project.

We wish also to recognize and thank ATP reviewers for their comments, including Stephanie Shipp, Director of ATP’s Economist Assessment Office; Lorel Wisniewski, Acting ATP Deputy Director; Brian Belanger, former ATP Deputy Director; Frank Barros, ATP Business Specialist; John Nail, Economist; Richard Spivack, Economist; Erik Puskar, ATP Business Specialist; and Jean-Louis Staudenmann, ATP Program Manager.

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Date created: October 7, 2005
Last updated: October 12, 2005

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