-
Join your peers at SSTI's 2024 Annual Conference!
Join us December 10-12 in Arizona to connect with and learn from your peers working around the country to strengthen their regional innovation economies. Visit ssticonference.org for more information and to register today.
-
As the most comprehensive resource available for those involved in technology-based economic development, SSTI offers the services that are needed to help build tech-based economies. Learn more about membership...
-
Subscribe to the SSTI Weekly Digest
Each week, the SSTI Weekly Digest delivers the latest breaking news and expert analysis of critical issues affecting the tech-based economic development community. Subscribe today!
NRC Releases First Phase of ATP Evaluation
As the first Advanced Technology Program (ATP) projects approach their 10th anniversary, many in government, industry and academia are asking the question: Is the program working?
In March 1999, the National Research Council began its contribution to the growing numbers of groups and individuals assessing the impact of the ATP. The Council's Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy held a special symposium to review the history, operations and economic analysis of the ATP as the first step in a larger evaluation.
The Advanced Technology Program: Challenges and Opportunities is the annotated proceedings from the March 29, 1999 meeting. This report compiles a broad array of perspectives on ATP as well as what the government's role should be in supporting high-risk R&D. The various participants include venture capitalists, small high-tech business owners, Capitol Hill policy makers, and academic researchers in economics.
Copies of the report, The Advanced Technology Program: Challenges and Opportunities (ISBN 0-309-06775-8), are available from the National Academy Press, Box 285, 2101 Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20055, (800) 624-6242.