Lab-to-Market: Commercializing New Technologies by Exchanging Talent

The Federal Government invested $146 billion on research and development (R&D) during FY 2016, much of it conducted at universities and Federal laboratories. All of this research activity contributes to the storehouse of human knowledge, and sometimes the pursuit of new discoveries yields new technologies with the potential to become commercially valuable products and services – a new vaccine, a new manufacturing process, even a new mass-market apple. More...