Managing Research, Development, and Innovation: Managing the Unmanageable, Third Edition

11.10. NASA TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAMS

NASA has reshaped its technology transfer program by making commercial technology transfer an integral part of the agency mission. The objective of this mission is to involve proactively private sector participation in every NASA program from the outset. This way, technology developed in the course of each aeronautics and space program is likely to have an immediate commercial linkage and a good potential for transfer.

A recent article (Comstock and Lockney, 2007) described how NASA has nurtured partnerships with the private sector to facilitate the transfer of NASA-developed technologies to benefit society. The following is a description of the NASA Innovative Partnership Program as described on the ...