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Technology
Transfer
Advisory
Committee
Chairperson: Ray
Moya
Co-Chair: John
Liddell |
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Committee Members and
Advisors
Carlos Guzman, Advisor
Minority Business
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The
federal government funds
nearly $1 billion each
year in early-stage R&D
projects at small
technology companies
through its SBIR and
Small Business
Technology Transfer
programs. These programs
fund R&D projects that
serve a government need
and often have
commercial applications,
providing:
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Up to $850,000
in pre-prototype
R&D funding
directly to
small technology
companies (or to
individual
entrepreneurs
who form a
company); and
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Up to $850,000
in pre-prototype
R&D funding to
small companies
working
cooperatively
with researchers
at universities
and other
research
institutions.
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Small
and minority companies
retain the patent rights
to any inventions they
develop. Funding is
awarded competitively,
but the process is
streamlined and user-friendly.
Members of the MBRT
Technology Transfer
Advisory Committee
represent federal
agencies, educational
institutions and
companies operating in
the private industry,
who work together to
identify minority
businesses that can
contribute to the
technology and licensing
these technologies so
that they can be brought
to the commercial
market.
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“Every
day, hundreds of
federally funded
laboratories apply their
research and development
expertise for the
advancement of science.
More than 700
laboratories and
research centers—representing
almost all federal
departments and
agencies— conduct
approximately $70
billion in research and
development annually and
employ more than 100,000
scientists and engineers.
Their science has the
capacity to enrich our
lives by making them
safer, more convenient,
and more fulfilling.
From medicine to
transportation to
communications, these
research facilities
investigate everything
that is known and
extract knowledge from
the previously unknown.
The effort, desire, and
creativity of these
scientists is
unparalleled.
But all this work is for
nothing if the genius is
not let out of the
bottle. It is essential
that the fantastic
developments happening
behind laboratory doors
be transferred from the
theoretical to the
practical. To capitalize
on the nation’s
investment in federal
research, the expertise
and technology must be
brought to the
marketplace. This
commercialization
enhances not only the
nation’s socioeconomic
well-being in the global
marketplace, but also
ensures its security and
prominence.
This transfer is
accomplished through the
outstanding work of
scientists, agency
representatives, and
technology transfer
professionals. This
achievement requires a
vision, a plan, and a
methodology.” (Extract
from Ed Linsenmeyer,
Chairman Federal
Laboratory Consortium
for Technology Transfer
(FLC Chair Welcoming
Letter)
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Purpose - Technology
Transfer Advisory
Committee
To provide the
fulfillment of the
vision, contribute to
the plan and construct a
methodology that enables
minority businesses to
play an active role in
the technology transfer
process.
The Technology Transfer
Advisory Committee will
work together to:
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Foster the
development of a
technology
economy that
will create and
sustain minority
businesses
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Develop and
empower minority
students to
become the next
generation of
entrepreneurs
and technology
leaders for the
advancement of
American Society
and the US
economy.
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Develop
relationships
among companies,
institutional
and private
investors,
research
institutions,
and the
university
community for
the purpose of
streamlining and
facilitating the
technology
transfer process.
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Develop
initiatives that
accelerate
technology
transfer form
the federal
government to
the home and
national open
market through
minority-owned
businesses
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The committee
will work to
establish MBRT
as a link
between the
capabilities
available in
minority
businesses and
the technology
needs of the
federal
government, its
laboratories and
agencies
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Establish
cooperative
relationships
such as
Memoranda of
Understanding to
facilitate the
above objectives
with federal
agencies,
laboratories,
and educational
institutions,
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Establish a
forum whereby
representatives
from private and
federal
government can
engage in
discussions for
the purpose of
identifying
activities that
will leverage
the capabilities
and resources of
government
agencies,
institutions of
higher education,
and minority-owned
technology-oriented
business firms
that lead to the
mutual benefit
of all
participants.
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List government
inventions
available for
licensing and
endeavor to
locate and
identify
minority and
small technology-oriented
business firms
that may have
the capability
to license
government
inventions that
are available.
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Identify and
list guidance
and support for
procedures on
submitting
license
applications
available from
federal agencies
and facilitate
technical
discussions
between small
and minority
firms and
federal agency
inventors as
appropriate.
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Provide minority
business-owners
with assistance
on licensing
issues. and on
open
solicitations
and proposal
submission
opportunities.
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Organize
outreach events
in conjunction
with federal
agencies for
minority
businesses that
focus on
presentations
covering new
federal
government
inventions.
These outreach
events would, in
addition to
presenting new
technology,
explain
government
research
programs and
activities,
availability of
grants, the
technology
transfer process
and related
minority-business
opportunities,
legal aspects,
licensing
procedures and
requirements for
these new
federal
inventions
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The
Minority Business Round
Table (MBRT) is a
national non profit
501(c) 3 membership
organization for CEOs of
the Nation’s largest
minority-owned companies.
MBRT was founded with
the objective of
promoting, supporting
and advocating
businesses owned by
ethnic minorities
including Native
American, Hispanic
American, African
American and Asian
American. Since
inception the
organization has worked
incessantly toward
taking its members
businesses to a new
level through workshops,
conferences and
formulating and
articulating public
policies that impact
minority-owned
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For
more information on membership in the Minority Business
RoundTable, please contact Roger A. Campos, President,
at (202) 289-8881 phone or e-mail to
rogercampos@mbrt.net
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