Acceleration of Technology Development by the Advanced Technology Program: TheExperience of 28 Projects Funded in 1991

摘要

This survey, conducted via structured telephone interviews of the primaryinvestigators of the 28 projects funded by the ATP in 1991, resulted in these detailed findings: Most of the interviewees estimated that participating in ATP had helped them to reduce their technology-development cycle time anywhere from 30% to 66% with half estimating a 50% reduction (most typically from a projected six-year cycle down to a three-year cycle). A little over half of the interviewees provided quantitative estimates of the economic value of reducing