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The T²RERC, in partnership with AZtech, will prepare a commercialization package that summarizes the end-user needs being met, market opportunity, problem statement, technical solutions, and the business plan for transferring the technology solution. A marketing plan will be developed to contact and present the commercialization package to targeted manufacturers.

The transfer of technology will be completed through mechanisms such as direct licensing of technology to a manufacturer; or a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) between a federal lab and a manufacturer. The Research Triangle Institute has extensive experience brokering technology transfers from federal laboratories to private manufacturers and is expected to play an important role in the final step of this project.

We expect to continue disseminating the problem statements indefinitely, or at least until an appropriate solution is identified and transferred. Anyone who has potential solutions to the problem statements developed from this project are encouraged to submit them via the Demand Pull Project on Wheeled Mobility website. The goal of this endeavor is to match new technologies or those that were originally used for other applications, with the problem statements and to facilitate the successful transfer of the technology into the marketplace.

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