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Federal Technology Transfer Act Program at the U.S. EPA

Cooperative Research arid Development

FTTA legislation:

¦	Provides private industry, state and local
governments, and academic institutions access to
federal laboratories to collaborate on R&D projects;

¦	Allows government-employed inventors to share
in royalties from their inventions;

¦	More efficiently and effectively gets federally-funded
technology into the marketplace.

CRADAs

M CRADAs are established between the EPA and
research partners to exchange personnel, equipment,
services, and/or expertise for an R&D project.

¦	Licensing Agreements can be established to protect
intellectual property, and allow outside entities to
license EPA patented products and methods.

Benefits

¦	Research partners benefit by having opportunities
to collaborate on research, and by bringing EPA's
research products to the field.

¦	EPA benefits from external expertise, product
development, and funding.

¦	The public benefits from federally-funded technology
reaching real-world applications quickly.

For more information

Visit

www.epa.gov/osp/fitta.htm

Contact

Laurel Schultz (schultz.Iaurel@epa.gov)
or

Kathleen Graham (graham.kathleen@epa.gov).

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