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technology image collageWhy Technology Transfer: The benefits of technology transfer: Accelerating R&D advances inside and outside NASA and increasing the taxpayer's ROI.


Technology transfer has many benefits. For NASA, technology transfer:
  • Accelerates the achievement of space exploration, science, and other mission goals, bringing us closer to understanding our universe and our home planet
  • Leverages partner resources and generates royalty revenue for out-licensed space-program technologies, making NASA more efficient with its R&D funds
  • Increases the benefits of the space program, yielding a greater return on the taxpayer’s investment

 

But the benefits of technology transfer are not limited to NASA. Technology transfer also:

  • Helps U.S. businesses be successful
  • Improves quality of life and public health
  • Increases U.S. economic development






















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