Abstract
It's almost become a cliche: U.S. competitiveness in high-technology sectors is lagging. The nation is great at basic research but poor at swiftly translating these findings into commercial products. Enter the Commerce Department and its new initiative, the Advanced Technology Program, to correct this. ATP, authorized by the 1988 Omnibus Trade & Competitiveness Act, provides grants and other support to individual companies or a consortium of firms. It is being funded for the first time this year, to the tune of $10 million. Its special targets are small businesses and independent research organizations. The program is intended to identify and focus on the choke points, or technical barriers, that are preventing progress in segments of a technical field. One such barrier cited by Commerce is an inability to manufacture diamond films, ceramics, or composites in a reproducible manner with sufficiently high performance to make possible new products based on these materials. ...
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