Tracking Overhead ORTA Costs in Technology Transfer Activities

<p>An ever shrinking Research and Development (RD) budget coupled with a widespread perception in industry and government that the nation is not realizing an adequate return from its substantial investment in the federal laboratory system has paved the way for an increase in the transfer of technology from the federal laboratories to the private sector. However the increase in technology transfer comes at a price as each federal laboratory with 200 or more scientific engineering or related positions is required to have at least one full time Office of Research and Technology Applications (ORTA) position. The objective of this research is to determine the indirect cost of performing technology transfer by identifying the resources consumed by several key ORTA organizations and the activities performed within these organizations. A previous research effort into the direct labor side of technology transfer activities identified several steps of the Transfer Master Process which had little or no resources expended. It was hypothesized that the ORTA organizations which are considered indirect labor by most costing methods would expend considerable portions of their resources on these activities.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>