Federal Actions to Accelerate Innovation from Lab to Market

NASEM Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR)October 24, 2019

Tracy C. HancockOffice of Science and Technology Policy

www.ostp.gov@WHOSTP

A U.S. Founding Father on Technological Innovation

“A full view having now been taken of the inducements to the promotion of manufactures in the United States…It will be of use to advert to…the encouragement of new inventions and discoveries at home, and of the introduction into the United States… particularly, those which relate to machinery.”

- Alexander Hamilton, in Report on ManufacturesDecember 5, 1791

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Priorities for The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)

The mission of OSTP is to ensure America is the world leader in science and technology. To that end, our work focuses on:

• Unleashing Discovery and Innovation

• Building the Workforce of the Future

• Advancing America’s Values in Global S&T Leadership

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Vision for Modernizing Federal Government

https://www.performance.gov/

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Lab-to-Market Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) Goal

Improve Transfer of Federally-Funded Technologies from Lab-to-Market

https://www.performance.gov/CAP/lab-to-market

Walter CopanUnder Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Michael KratsiosU.S. Chief Technology OfficerWhite House Office of Science and Technology Policy

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The Challenge

How do we ensure US investment in R&D is translated from discovery to real-world impact to achieve agency missions?

Source: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics Science and Engineering Indicators 2018

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Goals

• Improve the transition of federally funded innovations from the laboratory to the marketplace by reducing the administrative and regulatory burdens for technology transfer and increasing private sector investment in later-stage R&D;

• Develop and implement more effective partnering models and technology transfer mechanisms for Federal agencies; and

• Enhance the effectiveness of technology transfer by improving the methods for evaluating the ROI and economic and national security impacts of federally funded R&D, and using that information to focus efforts on approaches proven to work.

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StrategiesIdentify regulatory impediments and administrative improvements in Federal technology transfer policies and practices

Increase engagement with private sector technology development experts and investors

Build a more entrepreneurial R&D workforce

Support innovative tools and services for technology transfer

Improve understanding of global science and technology trends and benchmarks

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Participating Agencies Interagency Contributors

National Science and Technology Council Lab-to-Market Subcommittee

Interagency Working Group for Technology Transfer

Interagency Working Group for Bayh-Dole

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Managers Working Group

Entrepreneurial Training Interagency Working Group

Federal Laboratory Consortium forTechnology Transfer

OSTP Lab-to-Market Priorities

10https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/FY-21-RD-Budget-Priorities.pdf

Thank you!

tracy.c.hancock@ostp.eop.gov

www.ostp.gov@WHOSTP

Photo credit: Lloyd Whitman

Federal Actions to Accelerate Innovation from Lab to Market

Paul ZielinskiDirector, Technology Partnerships Office

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NIST and Tech Transfer

• Policy coordination, technology transfer regulation

• Lead for Interagency Workgroup for Technology

Transfer (11 agencies)

• Interagency Workgroup for Bayh-Dole

• Annual reports for the President, the Congress, and

OMB on technology transfer across federal agencies

• Lead in Lab-to-Market NSTC Subcommittee

• Host Agency for the Federal Laboratory Consortium

for Technology Transfer (FLC)

NIST has a unique role in promoting and reporting on the overall strength of federal technology transfer efforts

Unleashing American Innovation Symposium, April 19, 2018

Credit: Peter Cutts

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Return on Investment Initiative

As part of the President’s Management Agenda, the U.S. seeks to enable even greater

“Return on Investment” (ROI)

from the Federal government’s $150 billion annual R&D investment.

Lab to Market CAP Goal

NSTC L2M Subcommittee

IAWGTT, IAWGBD, FLC

ROI Green Paper

• Developed with support of the Science and Technology Policy

Institute (STPI) and with White House Office of Science and

Technology Policy

• Carefully considered extensive stakeholder inputs

• Addressed review with interagency working groups

• Published as NIST Special Publication 1234 on April 24, 2019

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15 key NIST findings to inform actions that will remove

existing impediments to innovation at the public-private

sector interface, and streamline and accelerate technology

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Stevenson-Wydler Legislative Proposal

A number of the ROI findings would require legislative change to implement:

• Copyright in Federal lab software

• Extend CRADA information protection period

• S-W regulatory authority

• Royalty payments to Federal employees

• Presumption of government rights

• Clarify CRADA authority

• Expansion of ACT

• Expansion of OTA

• Expansion of Foundations

• Reporting and metrics

Bayh-Dole Regulatory Action

Primarily Deregulatory; other potential actions:

• Further defining “reasonable terms”

• Clarifies “government use” rights

• Provides for a formal release process after a contractor has taken corrective actions after breaching a reporting requirement

• Permits up to 3% of funding to be used for IP protection

• Creates a parallel Federal report for extramural invention information

iEdison Rebuild

Pursuant to NAS and other public recommendations, NIST is in the process of assuming responsibility of the iEdison system for extramural invention reporting by funding recipients.

NIST and NIH are working closely on IT and security evaluations and developing a plan to bring a secure and operational system online at NIST and incorporate added functionality to the system to streamline operations.

Lab-to-Market CAP Goal Strategies

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