Volume 5, Number 1     January/February 1997

  Technology Transfer

NASA Promotes Technology Transfer At Technology 2006

ASA CO-SPONSORED THE TECHNOLOGY 2006 exposition in Anaheim, California, October 29-31. Co-sponsors were NASA Tech Briefs magazine and the Technology Utilization Foundation. The central purpose of this event is to help U.S. business tap the latest technologies developed by and for federal researchers. With exhibitors from NASA and the major Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and Department of Agriculture federal labs, Technology 2006 is a premiere event to promote technology transfer and commercialization.

Technology 2006 was held in conjunction with the Telecon XVI trade show, the largest event in the country for the videoconferencing and telemedicine industries. NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin gave the keynote speech at Technology 2006. Mr. Goldin focused on how NASA technology innovations, in medical and communications technologies, have paved the way for doctors now to be able to care for patients in remote and rural areas. This is the promise of telemedicine.

NASA and the National Technology Transfer Center also unveiled a new searchable CD-ROM containing the NASA technologies which have the hottest commercial potential. It contains data about more than 15,000 different technologies being developed by or for NASA and can be sorted by topic, company and other identifiers.

The NASA marketing team rolled out an aggressive marketing effort to see that U.S. companies could take advantage of our most important discoveries. NASA displayed its strengths by seven industry categories ranging from materials to software to medical technologies. This strategy made NASA's efforts much more focused and made it easy for the targeted industries to define which specific technologies might be of value to their companies. This new strategy was very well received by industry and a great learning experience for the NASA centers.

For more information, contact Michael Weingarten at NASA Headquarters.
Call 202/358-1680, E-mail: mweingarten@hq.nasa.gov
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