* All Speakers Confirmed

Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy

National Research Council

Symposium on

Assessing the Advanced Technology Program:

Issues and Outcomes

AGENDA*

April 25, 2000

National Academy of Sciences

2100 C Street, NW

Washington, D.C.

8:30AM Welcome

Charles Wessner, National Research Council

8:45AM Introduction

Clark McFadden, Dewey Ballantine

9:00AM Panel I: The ATP Objective: Addressing the Financing Gap for Enabling Technologies

Moderator: Charles Trimble, Trimble Navigation

The View from Industry: A Startup’s Perspective

Elizabeth Downing, 3D Technology Laboratories

The Venture Capital Perspective

David Morgenthaler, Morgenthaler Venture Capital

Lowering Hurdle Rates for New Technologies

Kathleen Kingscott, IBM

10:30AM Coffee Break

10:45AM Panel II: ATP’s Assessment Program

Moderator: David Goldston, Office of Congressman Boehlert

Overview of ATP’s Assessment Program

Rosalie Ruegg, Advanced Technology Program

Perspectives on Program Evaluation

Irwin Feller, Pennsylvania State University

Discussants: Nicholas Vonortas, George Washington University

James Turner, House Science Committee

12:00PM Lunch

1:00PM Panel III: Stimulating R&D Investment

Moderator: David Finifter, College of William & Mary

Halo Effects and Added Value

Maryann Feldman, Johns Hopkins University

Cheap Gas?: Joint Ventures and Fuel Efficiency

Mark A. Ehlen, NIST

Design Freedoms and Enhanced Value

Larry Rhoades, Extrude Hone

2:15PM Panel IV: Assessing Progress: Case Study Cluster

Moderator: David Austin, Resources for the Future

A New Approach to ATP Case Studies: Partnerships in Photonics

Todd Watkins, Lehigh University

Xeno-Organ Transplant

David Ayares, PPL Therapeutics

Economic Returns to New Medical Technologies

Tayler Bingham, Research Triangle Institute

Discussant: Henry Kelly, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

3:30PM Coffee Break

3:45PM Panel V: Assessing the ATP Assessment Program: Challenges and Policy Issues

Moderator: Charles Wessner, National Research Council

Panelists: John Yochelson, Council on Competitiveness

Irwin Feller, Pennsylvania State University

Todd Watkins, Lehigh University

David Goldston, Office of Congressman Boehlert

William Bonvillian, Office of Senator Lieberman

5:00PM Reception in the Great Hall of the Academy