Federal Laboratory Consortium
The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) is a U.S.-based nationwide network of federal
The FLC was organized in 1974 and formally chartered by the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986.[1] Its host agency is the National Institute of Standards and Technology.[2] More than 250 federal laboratories and centers and their parent departments and agencies are currently FLC members. In accordance with the Act and related federal policy, the FLC's mission is to promote and facilitate the rapid movement of federal laboratory research results and technologies into the mainstream of the U.S. economy.
Specifically, the FLC develops and tests transfer methods, addresses barriers to the process, provides training, highlights grass-roots transfer efforts, and emphasizes national initiatives in which
Legislation
- Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-480)
- Bayh–Dole Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-517)
- Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 (P.L. 99-502)
- Executive Order 12591 (1987)
- Office of Research and Technology Applications
External links
References
- ^ http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d099:32:./temp/~bdADeP:@@@L&summ2=m&%7C/bss/99search.html%7C[permanent dead link]
- ^ [1] Archived May 15, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "About the FLC". Federallabs.org. Retrieved 2013-04-07.