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Conference Profile: Federal Laboratory Consortium
The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) is the nationwide network of federal laboratories that provides the forum to develop strategies and opportunities for linking the laboratory mission technologies and expertise with the marketplace. More than 700 major federal laboratories and centers and their parent departments and agencies are FLC members.
The approach of the FLC is to use a coordinated program that meets the technology transfer support needs of FLC member laboratories, agencies, and their potential partners in the transfer process. While its mission is to promote and facilitate the rapid movement of federal laboratory research results and technologies into the mainstream of the U.S. economy, the FLC develops and tests transfer methods, addresses barriers to the process, provides training, highlights grass-roots transfer efforts, and emphasizes national initiatives where technology transfer has a role. For the public and private sector, the FLC brings laboratories together with potential users of government-developed technologies. This is in part accomplished by the FLC Laboratory Locator Network and regional and national meetings.
FLC News...
As the new FLC Chair, Ann Rydalch outlines her goals and objectives in the Summer 2001 edition of FLC Insider, the Consortium's quarterly newsletter. Ms. Rydalch offers the following:
- Strengthen the FLC structure, focusing on the congressional statutory mandate of the 1986 Federal Technology Transfer Act which serves to link laboratory mission technologies and expertise.
- Involve more scientists and engineers by expanding the Awards Committee and developing new committees in such areas as biotechnology, agriculture, advanced materials, and sensors and controls.
- Give greater emphasis and publicity to FLC Awards Program winners and their technologies Increase activity among the committees and the regional coordinators.
A gold sponsor of SSTI's fifth annual conference,Creating Opportunity: Tools for Building Tech-Based Economies, September 20-21, 2001, FLC will have its own conference exhibit and session. More information on FLC is available at http://www.federallabs.org/ Requests to subscribe to FLC Insider should be sent to flcnews@utrsmail.com
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