Survey on Federal Tech Transfer and ROI Initiative
As the most comprehensive resource for those involved in technology-based economic development, SSTI is working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help gather ideas to ensure more of the roughly $50 billion spent each year on R&D inside the federal government ends up as new or improved products, stronger companies and more jobs.
SSTI is soliciting your input to help inform decisions on the direction of federal R&D as it relates to innovation. Please complete the survey below to share your ideas of current and future practices affecting R&D direction and tech transfer options with the federal labs.
The survey results will become part of a report that will be shared with NIST on our field's perceptions of federal tech transfer efforts.
The deadline to respond is July 25, and we encourage you to share the link with others in the field to more fully capture as many opinions and ideas as possible. This important survey will take just 10 minutes of your time and may be considered in future legislation or implemented as tweaks to current federal lab practices, regulations and programs.
SSTI will use the responses in a two-pronged approach. First, we are gathering information regarding everyone's current level of engagement with the federal labs and its professional development organization, the Federal Laboratory Consortium. Even if you've never engaged with the labs, your perception of the potential value of R&D conducted inside the federal government is important, so please take a few minutes to respond.
Second, the final portion of the survey is designed to capture your ideas for improving federal R&D, technology transfer and commercialization. Feel free to be very specific about particular challenges or obstacles, and don't be afraid to suggest new, creative approaches to the goals.
Your responses will be anonymous and aggregated. If you do provide your contact information, it will not go into any publications without your prior approval. We ask for contact information to enable us to identify geographic patterns and shared characteristics in responses received. Providing your email address will enable us to contact you for more details or any elaboration on your input.
Responses must be received by July 25 for inclusion in our analysis.