Promoting U'S' Innovation and Industrial Competitiveness

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Promoting U.S. Innovation and Industrial
Competitiveness

• Dr. George W. Arnold

Deputy Director, Technology Services
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NISTs Role An Enabler for US Innovation and
Competitiveness
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Intellectual Property Plays an Important Role
To achieve competitive advantage in the
manufacturing sector requires significant
investment in scientific talent, laboratories and
analytical equipment, intellectual property
patents, Source Manufacturing in America,
Dept of Commerce 2004
Patentsthe key asset for us. They
enableaccess to the capital markets and to
continue our innovation and development
The venture capital accessed through patents
enables not-yet-profitable companies to sustain
. . . innovation through massive investments in
research and development. Source Federal Trade
Commission report, October 2003
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Leveraging Federal RD to Benefit Business

• Stevenson-Wydler Act
• Makes technology transfer the responsibility of
  all federal laboratories - encourages labs to
  patent and license their technologies and
  collaborate with industry
• Federal Technology Transfer Act
• Provides federal labs the authority and
  mechanisms to partner with industry

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The New Paradigm for Innovation
Open innovationassumes that firms can and
should use external ideas as well as internal
ideas, and internal and external paths to market,
as they look to advance their technology. Henry
Chesbrough, Open Innovation Researching a New
Paradigm
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The Key is Collaboration

• Few if any companies today can hold all the
  pieces of their own product technologythey
  simply must collaborate with others if they want
  to survive and prosperIP has become much more of
  a bridge to collaboration
• Marshall Phelps, Microsoft

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NIST Technology Transfer and Collaboration

• A wide variety of tools
• Technology Innovation Program (TIP)
• Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)
• Patents and licenses
• Collaborations formal and informal
• Guest researchers
• Publications
• Standards

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Working with NIST

• We appreciate your time and interest today
• We plan to have more events to showcase other
  areas
• Please contact us on the inventions you see today
• We invite your feedback on how we can work better
  to collaborate and communicate
• Consider other areas for collaboration as you
  hear about our programs and see some of our
  facilities