Abstract
MOVING RESEARCH and technology out of government laboratories and into the commercial sector is time-consuming and complicated. Congressional oversight, federal regulations, and differences in lab cultures are among the barriers that make technology transfer harder for the government than for research labs in the private sector. A recent report from the Science & Technology Policy Institute (STPI)—a division of the Institute for Defense Analyses, a nonprofit group that works solely for the government—details these obstacles to tech transfer at the federal laboratories. The report also discusses entities that are working to smooth the transfer. Technology transfer can be broadly defined as the movement of information and inventions out of the research laboratory and into the business world for commercialization. It includes, among other things, copyright and technology licensing and cooperative research and development agreements between industry and government. Successful federal tech transfer involves th...
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