Lab-to-Market Agency Outcomes 2015 FLC National Meeting April 29 th, 2015 Denver, Colorado
Action Plan 2 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 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