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Panel V: Assessing the ATP Assessment Program: Challenges and Policy Issues
Panel V: Assessing the ATP Assessment Program: Challenges and Policy Issues
Pages 160-172
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These comments will be valuable to the NRC review of the ATP. To open the discussion, he asked John Yochelson, President of the Council on Competitiveness, to offer his views.
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Again, this change plays to the ATP's strengths. Changing Investment Patterns Third, the private sector in the United States especially in the past four or five years has increased its focus on developing unique and high value products and services.
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The Need for a Stable Political Model If the ATP is truly a paradigm shift if it is truly a way out of the Valley of Death in which America's small firms found themselves a few years ago then we should seek a new and more stable political model for it. MEP is a program that was created for governors and states.
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But we missed the chance to create a strong political base. Congress sometimes creates poor quality programs with strong political support.
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Plugging microeconomic data, such as dollar cost savings of individual compa28 For a description of the Fifth Framework Programme (1998) see forma Routti and William Cannell, "European Union Research Programs," in National Research Council, New Vistas in Transatlantic Science and Technology Cooperation, Charles W
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spend even more effort on evaluating the program and tightening its management, to build support for the idea that the program is a revenue enhancer, and not an expenditure program; and · build relationships between product and process developers. Charles Wessner asked the group to comment on the extent to which evidence of positive spillover to the economy would be politically persuasive to policy makers.
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A Regional Approach John Yochelson asked whether a regional approach might mitigate some of the disadvantages of the state-based approach. Regional associations of states are quite common for dealing with problems that extend beyond state borders.
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John Yochelson asked whether a representative group of venture capitalists might be willing to testify publicly or privately to Congress that ATP does contribute to meeting the "funding gap." 29 There are U.S. programs focused on general improvements in manufacturing, such as the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program, and programs in the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Centers.
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Labor, for its part, will not lobby for the ATP unless there is a clear understanding of how it creates jobs and how it affects workers. Organized labor understands that new technology improves productivity and leads to growing incomes for workers.
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" presentation before the National Science Foundation conference, Workshop on Strategic Research Partnerships, 13 October 2000, publication of Proceedings pending. See also National Research Council, The Small Business Innovation Research Program: Challenges and Opportunities, Charles W
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The program is achieving its technology development goals in fields such as information technology and biotechnology. For example, the assessment program has recorded genuine advances in new processes and procedures for printed wiring boards, in the use of gallium arsenide to achieve improvements in integrated circuits, in testing and aligning extremely precise coated mirrors, and for enhancing data storage capabilities.
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The representative from IBM, Kathleen Kingscott, provided an equally valuable presentation explaining why even a major company with a large and successful internal R&D program finds it necessary to partner and finds the ATP an effective vehicle to collaborate on the development of enabling technologies. Perhaps most constructive was the presentation by David Morgenthaler, who not only outlined why venture capital and the ATP have inherently different objectives and functions, but also affirmed the need for more government investments of the type undertaken by this program.
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For example, we should probably consider issues such as the timing and speed of the award process, the possibility of concentrating resources in thematic areas, better integration of assessment results in the decision process, and the need to ensure sufficient program scale for maximum impact. There is the related possibility of the program undertaking more "work for others" as do a number of the DoE laboratories, particularly with regard to tools and medical equipment.
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