[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 15, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 15CFR1160.22]



[Page 425]

 

                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE

 

      CHAPTER XI--TECHNOLOGY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 

PART 1160_PRODUCTIVITY, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION--Table of Contents

 

               Subpart B_Strategic Partnership Initiative

 

Sec. 1160.22  Goal of the Strategic Partnership initiative.



    (a) This new initiative is designed to provide the private sector 

with the opportunity to discuss the possible benefits of forming 

Strategic Partnerships among firms representing the entire food chain of 

specific technologies. By focusing on a specific technology, these 

partnerships will have the capability to integrate the innovation 

activities for a broad range of applications made possible by that 

technology. The integrative function differentiates this initiative from 

earlier Department of Commerce initiatives which deal with only one 

stage of the commercial process. Strategic Partnerships differ from 

traditional cooperative R&D consortia which are composed primarily of 

competitors who cooperate only in the early precompetitive stage of 

innovation. In contrast, Strategic Partnerships are made up generally of 

noncompeting companies (see Sec. 1160.21(a)) and are capable of 

accomplishing the entire process of innovation working on a proprietary 

basis.

    (b) The immediate goal of this initiative is to hold workshops upon 

a request from the private sector in key technologies at which the 

stakeholder industries in the food chain for each technology will have a 

chance to consider potential applications of the technology, current 

status of the technology, what R&D needs to be performed, the 

competitive position of U.S. industry in that technology, including the 

status of foreign competition, and the ways in which U.S. stakeholders 

might organize themselves to maximize commercial benefits. The ultimate 

outcome of such workshops will be entirely at the discretion of the 

private sector and may include the formation of one or more Strategic 

Partnerships, other types of multifirm ventures, or no action at all. 

The Department will not undertake to form specific partnerships. This 

will be solely at the discretion of the participants.



[56 FR 41282, Aug. 20, 1991; 56 FR 51257, Oct. 10, 1991]