Partnerships

NIST:

• Managing NIST intellectual property (inventions, patents, licenses, trademarks)
• Managing the NIST Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program
• Supporting NIST Associates and Guest Researchers (DGR)
• Analyzing the economic impact of NIST technology transfer activities (See  Reports and Publications)

Government-wide:

• Promoting both formal and informal collaboration opportunities for NIST researchers including Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) and Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs); and coordinating Facility Use Agreements (FUAs)
• Strengthening awareness of NIST technology transfer
• Coordinating cross-governmental policy through the Interagency Workgroup for Technology Transfer (IAWGTT)
• Serving as the Host Agency for the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC)
• Performing government-wide reporting and analysis of technology transfer

The Public:

• Promoting formal collaboration opportunities with Academia and U.S. Companies
• Promoting the economic impact of federal technology transfer activities (See Reports and Publications)
• Assessing and Improving the transfer process of technologies from lab to market (FLC)
• Analyzing the return-on-investment from the transfer of federal technologies (ROI)