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1 FLC Washington DC Office Gary K. Jones FLC DC Rep Business Meeting DC Update FLC National Meeting Albuquerque, NM April 27, 2010

2 Recent Policy Statements (on Collaboration with Federal Labs) House S&T Committee (111 th Cong. legislative agenda) (Jan 2009) work to develop updated policies for encouraging Federallysupported research at labs and universities to be brought into the marketplace OMB Memo re S&T Priorities in FY11 budget (Aug 2009) Agency budget submissions should also explain how the agency plans to take advantage of today's open innovation model. Administration s Strategy for American Innovation (Sept 2009) The Federal government should take advantage of the expertise and insight of people both inside and outside the Federal government and form high-impact collaborations with researchers, the private sector, and civil society

3 Department of Commerce: Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (October 2009) The office will focus on the following areas: * Accelerating Tech Commercialization of Fed R&D Multiple meetings with the IWGTT (focused mostly on university tech transfer initially presume they will turn to federal lab tech transfer) FLC met with OIE staff * Topic of several speeches by Commerce Secretary in recent months (federal tech transfer) highlighting mission of the new office in developing policy for this issue

4 CRS Technology Transfer Report (November 2009) Highlights: Current federal tech transfer efforts; Role of the FLC; Legislative History Summary: At issue is whether incentives for technology transfer remain necessary, if additional legislative initiatives are needed to encourage increased technology transfer, or if the responsibility to use the available resources now rests with the private sector. As the 111th Congress makes decisions concerning funding for R&D, the role of the federal government in technology transfer, technology development, and commercialization might be expected to be explored further. (

5 Open Government Initiative and Tech Transfer (December 2009) Administration s Open Government Initiative/Directive Transparency, participation and collaboration and Technology Transfer Data streaming initiative HHS, DOE, DOC, USDA, NASA, increasing access to information on 1) new technologies available for commercial licensing, 2) Cooperative Research and Development (CRADA) awards and opportunities, 3) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards and opportunities, 4) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) awards and opportunities, and 5) projects sponsored through grants and contracts.

6 AURP: Power of Innovation (February 2010) Point #4: Improve technology commercialization from federal laboratories by creating a congressionally chartered technology intermediary organization. Create a congressionally chartered commercialization intermediary org, based on models found at research universities, state agencies, and individual fed laboratories. By expanding the funding, authority, venture staffing, and venture acceleration capacity of the Federal Lab Consortium established in 15 USC sec (Note: FLC not involved in this proposal). *Testified in recent hearings on Research Park Bill (S. 583)

7 ITIF: 8 Ideas for Improving the America COMPETES Act (March 2010) Idea #4: Create a program modeled after the SBIR/STTR programs to support university state and federal laboratory technology commercialization initiatives. Allocate 0.15 % of agency research budgets to fund univ., fed. lab, and state govt. tech commercialization efforts Half to universities and federal labs for initiatives half to fund state TBED initiatives. To be administered by NIST. *Testified in recent hearing on reauth of America COMPETES

8 OSTP and NEC: RFI on Commercializing Univ Research (March 2010) To identify ways in which we can increase the economic impact of Federal investment in university R&D and the innovations being fostered in Federal and private proof of concept centers (POCCs). The RFI seeks comments on: 1. how to encourage commercialization of university research 2. whether POCCs can be a means of stimulating the commercialization of early-stage technologies by bridging the valley of death

9 FLC Washington DC Office (Farragut Square) Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer 1001 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 735 Washington, DC Phone: Fax: