Columbus, OH – Battelle and the Academy of Radiology Research produced a new report that showed how federal R&D funding succeeds in producing patents. The report examines essentially all federal R&D and finds that, per patent, public-sector agencies provide a return comparable to private-sector ones. The Academy and Battelle among other things raise the profile of imaging research through education and advocacy.
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Washington D.C. – The State Science & Technology Institute (SSTI) highlighted the a recent study on publicly funding programs: “SBIR projects are less likely to fail if research teams are smaller, have more experience and include women investigators, according to a new working paper by Albert N. Link and Mike Wright. The authors also found that larger SBIR awards lower the chances that a project will be discontinued before completion. While the study focuses on projects supported through federal SBIR programs, the findings could have implications for other kinds of public R&D support."
Washington D.C. – President Obama announced nearly $500 million in public-private investment to strengthen American manufacturing by investing in cutting-edge technologies through a new, textiles-focused manufacturing institute competition led by the Department of Defense, and by sharpening the capabilities of small manufacturers through Manufacturing Extension Partnership competitions in twelve states. The White House, as detailed in a new report, is also launching a Supply Chain Innovation Initiative focused on building public-private partnerships to strengthen the small U.S. manufacturers that anchor the nation’s supply chains.
Washington D.C. – According to the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Congress is looking to create greater support to the manufacturing industry. U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) introduced the Manufacturing Universities Act of 2015, would will help transform university-industry relations, improve America’s innovation capacity, and ultimately spur significant economic and employment growth.
Washington D.C. - The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is seeking nominations for its annual Tibbetts and Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Hall of Fame Awards. For details on how to submit nominations, visit http://www.sbir.gov/news/2015-tibbetts-and-sbir-hall-fame-award-nominations. The deadline is 11:59 p.m. EDT, April 10, 2015. Please note that for the first time, there is an option for nominations to be made by video presentation.
Westerville, OH - The State Science & Technology Institute (SSTI) offers an analysis of President Obama's $4 trillion budget request for FY16. His proposal is again unlikely to find support in Congress, but serves as a useful guide to the administration’s priorities and a source of new ideas.
Click here for their analysis: http://bit.ly/1vyUdVt Washington, D.C., December 16, 2014 – The $1 trillion omnibus budget bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives this morning—and expected to be passed by the Senate this Friday—includes up to $300 million in funding for the Revitalizing American Manufacturing Innovation (RAMI) Act. In response, Stephen Ezell, Senior Analyst with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) releases the following statement:
“The imminent passage of RAMI as part of the omnibus budget bill is a tremendous victory for American manufacturing and broader U.S. economic competitiveness. The appropriation will enable the full development of the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI)—composed of up to 15 Institutes for Manufacturing Innovation focused on ensuring U.S. leadership in a range of advanced manufacturing product and process technologies. This network will bring together industry, universities and community colleges, federal agencies, and all levels of government to accelerate manufacturing innovation in technologies with commercial applications. With a fully formed NNMI, the United States is positioned to fill an important gap in its technology development ecosystem, with government co-investing alongside industry in applied research whose intent is to ensure that the fruits of basic scientific research and technological discovery get translated into commercial products manufactured at scale in the United States. Improving innovation infrastructure will be a key for the United States to remain a leader in the increasingly competitive and global high-tech industries that will be central to our future economic health. This also matches the approach toward industrially relevant R&D long in place in peer countries, such as Germany’s Fraunhofer Institutes and the British Catapult network. Given the potential impact for American innovation and competitiveness, RAMI is the signature technology policy action of the 113th Congress and quite possibly the Obama Administration. ITIF commends the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology; the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; the full U.S. House and Senate; and the Obama Administration for taking up this important bipartisan legislation that will play a significant role in U.S. economic health for years to come.” For the original link, click here. |
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