Deciding on a Transfer Strategy and Passing Milestones

As a part of the planning process described in the preceding section, you have probably arrived at a decision about whether the project that you are beginning will lead to an outcome that is transferable.

Remember the operational definition of technology transfer that we gave earlier: technology transfer concerns the flow of products, processes, and research findings directly resulting from laboratory work, leading to their dissemination, adoption, and use by individuals and organizations outside the RR & D Center.

• If there is no anticipated transferable product, process, or product arising from the planned project, there is no reason for you to continue to use this Guide until such a situation arises.
  
  
• If you have not decided, but there is a reasonable chance that there may be a product, process, or product that is transferable, then you should review the information on planning in Section 2 in this Guide.
  
  
• If you have decided that there will be a product, process, or finding with transfer potential, you should indicate your decision on the form titled "RR & D Center Technology Transfer Milestones." (See the sample form in Section 5.)

1. Show the date you made the decision.
2. Specify each transferable product, process, or finding.

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Investigator

Transfer Officer

Center Director