Lab-to-MarketAgency Outcomes
2015FLC National Meeting
April 29th, 2015
Denver, Colorado
Action Plan
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Develop Human Capital
Empower Effective Collaborations
Open R&D Assets
Fuel Small Business Innovation
Evaluate Impact
So what’s been done?
Government-wide perspective: FLC/Interagency WG for Tech Transfer
Department of Energy: Jetta Wong
US Department of Agriculture: Mojdeh Bahar
Department of Defense: David Appler
$6M in New Money for FY15
Money provided to NIST for interagency efforts related to Lab to Market Presidential Innovation Fellows
Minority Business Development Agency collaboration
University groups workshop
iEdison improvements
FLC Available Technologies improvements
Economic analysis studies
Develop Human Capital
Lab to Market effort undertook a series of R&D Deputies meetings with OSTP and OMB officials to underscore the importance of tech transfer efforts
Engaged with OGE on several issues related to entrepreneurship, to assist them in developing draft ethics guidance
Collected examples from agencies on how they incentivize researchers to participate in the tech transfer process, to develop a resource on the FLC website
Empower Effective Collaborations Developed a Tech Transfer Playbook
1.0 – print version available online at http://www.federallabs.org/flc/store/technology-transfer-playbook/
2.0 – planned wiki version with links, cross references, contacts, etc.
Presidential Innovation Fellows Proposal accepted to evaluate ‘Valley of Death’ and make
recommendations on how to improve engagement with entrepreneurs and VCs
Opened a dialogue with COGR and other university groups to host a listening session later this year regarding Bayh-Dole regulations and government-university collaborations issues
Open R&D Assets
Many agencies have already posted data sets on Available IP and R&D facilities to data.gov NIH hosted a series of webinars on working with your IT and CIO
staff to accomplish this goal
FLC Business was evaluated against the GSA database to assure completeness of federal facilities listings
Hosted several meetings with government stakeholders about improvements to iEdison
Fuel Small Business Innovation
Engaged with the Minority Business Development Agency
SBIR Road Tour hosted by SBA to increase participation from underrepresented areas of the country
Single site being developed for SBIR solicitations – website is currently in beta testing with June release planned
Evaluate Impact
New metrics collected for 2013 Federal Report Examples: number of start-ups formed around federal technology;
breakout of large and small business participation in CRADAs and licenses; quantification of broader tech transfer metrics such as publications, and evaluation of numbers of citations of government patents in non-government patent filings; evaluating the technical areas engaged for government patents and papers
Preliminary analysis of published economic studies to be included
FLC website includes updated and improved Success Stories page
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