Lab-to-MarketAgency Outcomes

2015FLC National Meeting

April 29th, 2015

Denver, Colorado

Action Plan

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Develop Human Capital

Empower Effective Collaborations

Open R&D Assets

Fuel Small Business Innovation

Evaluate Impact

So what’s been done?

Government-wide perspective: FLC/Interagency WG for Tech Transfer

Department of Energy: Jetta Wong

US Department of Agriculture: Mojdeh Bahar

Department of Defense: David Appler

$6M in New Money for FY15

Money provided to NIST for interagency efforts related to Lab to Market Presidential Innovation Fellows

Minority Business Development Agency collaboration

University groups workshop

iEdison improvements

FLC Available Technologies improvements

Economic analysis studies

Develop Human Capital

Lab to Market effort undertook a series of R&D Deputies meetings with OSTP and OMB officials to underscore the importance of tech transfer efforts

Engaged with OGE on several issues related to entrepreneurship, to assist them in developing draft ethics guidance

Collected examples from agencies on how they incentivize researchers to participate in the tech transfer process, to develop a resource on the FLC website

Empower Effective Collaborations Developed a Tech Transfer Playbook

1.0 – print version available online at http://www.federallabs.org/flc/store/technology-transfer-playbook/

2.0 – planned wiki version with links, cross references, contacts, etc.

Presidential Innovation Fellows Proposal accepted to evaluate ‘Valley of Death’ and make

recommendations on how to improve engagement with entrepreneurs and VCs

Opened a dialogue with COGR and other university groups to host a listening session later this year regarding Bayh-Dole regulations and government-university collaborations issues

Open R&D Assets

Many agencies have already posted data sets on Available IP and R&D facilities to data.gov NIH hosted a series of webinars on working with your IT and CIO

staff to accomplish this goal

FLC Business was evaluated against the GSA database to assure completeness of federal facilities listings

Hosted several meetings with government stakeholders about improvements to iEdison

Fuel Small Business Innovation

Engaged with the Minority Business Development Agency

SBIR Road Tour hosted by SBA to increase participation from underrepresented areas of the country

Single site being developed for SBIR solicitations – website is currently in beta testing with June release planned

Evaluate Impact

New metrics collected for 2013 Federal Report Examples: number of start-ups formed around federal technology;

breakout of large and small business participation in CRADAs and licenses; quantification of broader tech transfer metrics such as publications, and evaluation of numbers of citations of government patents in non-government patent filings; evaluating the technical areas engaged for government patents and papers

Preliminary analysis of published economic studies to be included

FLC website includes updated and improved Success Stories page