Partnering Opportunities

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Every Goddard-developed innovation is made available to the nation’s companies, universities, and other government laboratories, creating the opportunity for a partnership. The partnering-opportunity process begins when Goddard’s civil servants and contractors who are conducting the innovative R&D to further NASA’s missions disclose their new inventions to the Innovative Partnerships Program via a New Technology Report (NTR).

In addition to the partnerships based upon Goddard-developed technologies, some opportunities relate to NASA mission needs. In these cases, IPP works with Goddard’s research departments to determine which R&D projects could be accelerated with a partnership that brings in outside technology, facilities, or expertise.

Once it understands what technologies are available and what needs require partners, IPP uses standard, proven means as well as innovative approaches for successfully and cost-effectively communicating Goddard’s partnering opportunities.

Technology transfer is not possible without the opportunities created by Goddard innovators and OTT’s outreach efforts to make them known to potential partners. In short, partnering opportunities are the foundation upon which all technology transfer success is based. As discussed previously, the benefits of this success include a faster innovation timeframe for NASA, efficient use of taxpayer resources, enhancements to the U.S. economy, and improved quality of life and public health.