Advanced Technology Program

Charles W. Wessner, Editor, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Foreword and Executive Summary; 3 Preface; 4 Background; 5 Overview of the Papers; 6 Summary of Symposium Proceedings; 7 Findings and Recommendations; 8 Welcome; 9 Panel I: The ATP Objective: Addressing the Financing Gap for Enabling Technologies; 10 Panel II: ATP's Assessment Program; 11 Panel III: Stimulating R&D Investment; 12 Panel IV: Assessing Progress: Case Study Cluster; 13 Panel V: Assessing the ATP Assessment Program: Challenges and Policy Issues; 14 The ATP Competition Structure; 15 Leveraging Research and Development: The Impact of the Advanced Technology Program; 16 Estimating Economic Benefits from ATP Funding of New Medical Technologies; 17 Enhanced R&D Efficiency in an ATP-funded Joint Venture; 18 Estimating Future Benefits from ATP Funding of Digital Data Storage; 19 Perspectives on the Determinants of Success in ATP-sponsored R&D Joint Ventures: The Views of Participants; 20 Taking a Step Back: An Early Results Overview of Fifty ATP Awards; 21 Annex A. Authorizing Legislation for the Advanced Technology Program; 22 Annex B. Biographies of Contributors; 23 Annex C. Participants List, 25 April 2000 Conference; 24 Annex D. Internal and External Reviews of the ATP, Analyses Commissioned by the Office of Economic Assessment; 25 Annex E. Bibliography