TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER 10 Agreement Management Who are we? The Agreement Management organization is responsible for a number of functions including: • Preparation, negotiation and execution of all research funds coming to INL and research collaboration agreements with industry, academia and other government agencies, • Leading the process to determine appropriate research and development (R&D) agreement mechanisms, and • Managing expectations of technical leads, principal investigators, managerial staff and sponsors relative to the implementation of sound contracting practices. Goals INL, like all federal laboratories, has a statutory technology-transfer mission to make its capabilities and technologies available to federal agencies, state and local governments, universities, and industry. To fulfill this mission, INL encourages its scientific, engineering and technical staff to disclose new inventions and creations to ensure the resulting intellectual property is made available to others who may benefit. INL has long leveraged its distinctive technical resources through industrial partnerships. The lab uses a variety of flexible partnership mechanisms to establish industrial partnerships that benefit INL, the DOE and the participating partner, including: • Increased technical breadth and depth of laboratory staff available to national missions, • Reduced costs to taxpayers by using funding from other sources, and • Enhanced competitiveness for U.S. companies. The Agreement Management team includes (left to right) Agreement Specialists RachelTaow, Elise Miller, Agreement Administrator Karalee Holubar, Agreement Specialist Lisa Nate, Manager Don Stevens and Agreement SpecialistTara Justesen.