Transferring Argonne Technology to Industry.

摘要

Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) is a Department of Energy (DOE) multiprogram laboratory located in southeastern DuPage County, Illinois. In the course of its energy research and development activities ANL develops technology which can be used by industry. Over the past five years, ANL has explored a number of ways to effectively transfer this technology. The most far-reaching way has been the acquisition of ANL intellectual property by The University of Chicago, Argonne's operator, through the enactment of new federal laws. This led to the formation of the ARCH Development Corporation, which owns the patents and licenses them to industry or creates new companies and ventures. One of its earliest licenses was with a small business created by a former Argonne employee, who has established his laboratory at Moraine Valley Community College. The State-of-Illinois-supported Technology Commercialization Center at Argonne has also played an important role in the technology transfer process by counseling and supporting the activities of small, often newly created businesses in the collar counties and by assisting firms in proposing R and D for funding by the federal agencies' SBIR programs. Several Argonne spin-off companies have been successful in getting these grants. The discoveries of high-temperature superconductors resulted in a large increase in Argonne's superconductivity R and D program together with a campaign to involve industries, large and small, in Illinois and nationally. Argonne is essentially carrying out a number of experiments in technology transfer to discover what works and what does not. There are many examples, other than those cited in this abstract, such as industry-wide initiatives and consortia, which are described in the full paper. (ERA citation 14:014856)