Eight DOE of national laboratories offer optimized partnerships

DOE announced on 23 February that eight of the national laboratories are involved in, facilitate a pilot initiative for private companies that use laboratories research capacities. The participating laboratories are Ames, Brookhaven, Idaho, Lawrence Livermore National renewable energy, Savannah River, Oak Ridge and Pacific Northwest national laboratories. The arrangements for the commercialisation of technology (ACT) program will take advantage of the United States in innovation to create jobs and the development of new technologies for clean energy.

Previously companies want to partner with laboratories for commercial research two options had: signed a cooperative research and development agreement or a work for-other agreement. The eight laboratories participate in this pilot program to provide that restricted one less ACT opportunity. Under the Act are to negotiate more flexibility, the intellectual property rights for technologies that are created in a lab; There will be more flexibility on other issues of payment and project structures. The ACT agreements will facilitate also multi-party partnerships. See the DOE press release and a list of frequently asked questions about the ACT option.

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Industry, national laboratories in DOE tap initiative of bureaucratic overhead

On the December 8, DOE announced a new pilot initiative to reduce the barriers that prevent that innovative companies work with the DOE national laboratories. The new arrangements for commercialization technology (ACT) initiative helps more quickly bring to market companies, job creation technologies, by allowing them work with laboratories from beginning to end, development and deployment of new clean energy technologies and other innovations. In January to announce selected DOE Laboratories to participate in the pilot project.

The ACT initiative catapulted removed obstacles for businesses and start-up companies interested in access to the research, facilities and scientists at national laboratories, innovative new products to market. Laboratories have DOE's a long tradition of cooperation with companies and universities for scientific research and technology development efforts, which have generated much progress, brought new businesses and supports the creation of new industries and jobs. The ACT framework connects to other current DOE legal mechanisms for cooperation with national laboratories, including work on other program and cooperative research and development agreements.

Addressing input from the industry based on their experience in dealing with national laboratories, authorized one ACT to facilitate the intellectual property rights always technology from the laboratory to the market more flexible framework for negotiations on. It allows also contractors operating laboratories with businesses using terms that are better aligned with industry practice to attract more private investment. ACT allows laboratories to participate in groups formed to complex technological challenges that are of common interest. For the ACT initiative, see the DOE press release (copyright) and a list of frequently asked questions.

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