Cuyamaca College
Environmental Technology Program
Far West Regional Technology Transfer Center (RTTC)
The Far West Regional Technology Transfer Center (RTTC) addresses and eliminates barriers or gaps that may inhibit the technology transfer at any point throughout the transfer process. This center works with businesses to help them identify and analyze their technological needs and assist them in the definition of technical problems and issues which must be addressed before the actual search for an appropriate technology begins.
Using a sophisticated computerized database system that stores the abstracts of thousands of government research projects, its information specialists work with companies to uncover new technology or research efforts underway that most closely match their needs. In this manner, businesses are provided a means to scan the pool of potentially appropriate research underway in the Federal government's scientific and technical community and can pinpoint the required technologies important to their particular commercial needs.
For example, the FLC Far West regional program working with the NASA Far West Regional Technology Transfer Center (RTTC) is one way to work with the Federal laboratory system
The FLC Laboratory Locator Service and NASA's National Technology Transfer Center and Regional Technology Transfer Centers work together to facilitate this activity through the use of formal technical request.
The FLC Far West Region Directory was developed with the assistance of the NASA Far West Regional Technology Transfer Center (RTTC). The cooperative partnership of the FLC Far West Region and the RTTC provides the technology user a full service capability for improving the transfer and domestic uses of Federal laboratory science and technology resources. The Far West RTTC serves as an entry point for potential users of government technologies, which may or may not lead to the FLC.
Additionally, the Far West RTTC helps companies complete the commercialization process. For example, assistance in marketing, matching clients with business partners for joint ventures, and referrals to local assistance programs. It also helps companies obtain funding from sources such as venture capitalists, investment bankers, and commercial banks.
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