The Advanced Technology Program

The Advanced Technology Program
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2001-07-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309170710

This report examines the operations of the APT, reviews its extensive assessment program, and provides NRC Committee findings concerning the ATP's operations and recommendations for potential improvements to the program. The report includes a summary of a major conference held in April 2000 as well as seven papers, including surveys of the industry participants or users of the ATP program, a summary of the results of fifty awards, detailed assessments of major joint ventures, and a description of the current selection process. It is the most comprehensive study to date of the program's origins, operations, achievements, and assessment. Its conclusion: the program works.

Advanced Technology Program

Advanced Technology Program
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 137
Release: 1999-11-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309067758

The growth in government programs to support high-technology industry within national economies and their impact on international science and technology cooperation and on the multilateral trading system are of considerable interest worldwide. Accordingly, these topics were taken up by STEP in a study carried out in conjunction with the Hamburg Institute for Economic Research and the Institute for World Economics in Kiel. One of the principal recommendations for further work emerging from that study was a call for an analysis of the principles of effective cooperation in technology development, to include lessons from national and international consortia, including eligibility standards and assessments of what new cooperative mechanisms might be developed to meet the challenges of international cooperation in high-technology products.

Future of Health Technology

Future of Health Technology
Author: Renata Glowacka Bushko
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2002
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781586030919

This text provides a comprehensive vision of the future of health technology by looking at the ways to advance medical technologies, health information infrastructure and intellectual leadership. It also explores technology creations, adoption processes and the impact of evolving technologies.

State of Innovation

State of Innovation
Author: Fred L. Block
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317251423

The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has generated a fundamental re-evaluation of the free-market policies that have dominated American politics for three decades. State of Innovation brings together critical essays looking at the 'innovation industry' in the context of the current crisis. The book shows how government programs and policies have underpinned technological innovation in the US economy over the last four decades, despite the strength of 'free market' political rhetoric. The contributors provide new insights into where innovations come from and how governments can support a dynamic innovation economy as the US recovers from a profound economic crisis. State of Innovation outlines a 21st century policy paradigm that will foster cutting-edge innovation which remains accountable to the public.

Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space

Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space
Author: Committee on Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 151
Release: 1997-07-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309524598

Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space was written in response to a request from NASA's Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications (OLMSA) to evaluate its Advanced Human Support Technology Program. This report reviews the four major areas of the program: advanced life support (ALS), environmental monitoring and control (EMC), extravehicular activities (EVA), and space human factors (SHF). The focus of this program is on long-term technology development applicable to future human long-duration space missions, such as for a hypothetical new mission to the Moon or Mars.