Innovate America:The Technology Innovation Program at NIST

摘要

9 August 2007, the US Congress established the Technology InnovationProgram (TIP) through the America COMPETES Act, a comprehensive strategy to keep theUnited States, the most innovative nation in the world, competitive by strengthening scientificeducation and research, improving technological enterprise, attracting the world's bestand brightest workers, and providing twenty-first century job training. The new program,TIP, is located at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg,MD (www.n istgovip).