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https://www.nist.gov/tpo
Technology Partnerships Office
The Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) serves our NIST customers by leading technology transfer processes that NIST researchers use to develop innovations from concept to practical application. TPO structures collaborative relationships between NIST researchers and regional, national, and global partners, fosters entrepreneurship and small business growth, and provides economic analysis to support the process.
Just three months ago, NIST’s Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) hosted a virtual program that brought together scientific and technological business
The Bayh-Dole Act allows agencies to ask for periodic reports on the utilization or attempts at obtaining the utilization of subject inventions. Utilization
New technologies are always invented in the labs at NIST every year. The researchers dedicate their time to discovering these new solutions to problems and