Framework for Estimating the National Economic Benefits of ATP Funding of MedicalTechnologies: Preliminary Applications to Tissue Engineering Projects Funded from 1990 to 1996

摘要

The Economic Assessment Office (EAO) of the Advanced Technology Program (ATP)seeks to measure the economic impacts of ATP's funding of high-risk, enabling technologies and aslo to increase understanding of underlying relationships between technological change and economic phenomena, to further the program's ability to achieve its mission. To this end, the EAO compiles data, condcuts economic studies, and commissions studies by outside research organizations and economists. The RTI study was intended to achieve four goals: to estimate potential benefits of an inclusive portfolio group of ATP projects; to perform seven case studies within the portfolio group using a consistent methodology; to