Anna Forrester
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a report on the government’s technology transfer activities in fiscal 2012 in support of the Lab-to-Market Cross-Agency Priority Goal under the President’s Management Agenda in 2014.
NIST said Tuesday the report provides a baseline for measuring the government’s performance toward fulfilling the technology transfer CAP goal.
“We will use future editions of this report to continue to keep the president and the Congress informed of the ongoing efforts of federal laboratories to expand our technology transfer efforts in partnership with U.S. industry, academic institutions, nonprofit foundations, and state, local and tribal governments,” said Acting NIST Director Willie May.
The “Federal Laboratory Technology Transfer, Fiscal Year 2012, Summary Report to the President and Congress” report indicates the following findings:
- 8,812 research agreements
- 21,677 collaborative relationships for research and development
- 5,149 new invention disclosures
- 2,346 filed patent applications
- 1,808 issued patents
- 5,451 active income bearing licenses
- $166.8 million income from licenses
Fiscal 2012 also saw the transfer of technologies for manufacturing coronary stents, detecting infectious bacteria, treating cervical cancer, response and recovery for radiation exposure, as well as eliminating environmental contaminants in water and the subsurface, NIST said.
