The
Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 also requires scientists and engineers to consider technology transfer to be an individual responsibility and stipulates that technology transfer activities will be included in employee performance evaluations (22).
96-480, the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980, as amended by the
Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 (P.L.
Examples would include facilitating commercialization of early-stage technology, such as the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 and the
Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986, both of which eased entrepreneurs' ability to access early-stage research.
Examples include the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980, the Bayh-Dole University and Small Business Patent Procedure Act of 1980, the National Cooperative Research Act of 1984, the
Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986, and the National Competitiveness Technology Transfer Act of 1989.
companies to take advantage of more on-the-shelf research from ARS' and other federal laboratories already bought and paid for by American taxpayers, the Congress enacted the
Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986. It authorized federal agencies to enter into Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA's) with private industry and allowed for the granting of exclusive licenses for federally developed innovations.