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Technology Partnerships Office

The Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) serves our NIST customers by leading technology transfer processes that NIST researchers use to develop innovations from concept to practical application. TPO structures collaborative relationships between NIST researchers and regional, national, and global partners, fosters entrepreneurship and small business growth, and provides economic analysis to support the process.

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TPO Infographics
POTM: redox sorting of carbon nanotubes; patent number 10,858,256
Patent of the Month: July 2021

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Looking Back at NIST Patents

The Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) at NIST communicates with the labs as they discover new technologies and works toward getting those inventions patented
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A Liaison into the Labs

The Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) is always working to find ways to better advance the TPO and NIST mission of transferring federal technologies from the

Contacts

  • Technology Partnerships Office
    (301) 975-2573