§19109 Translation Accelerator

Summary

The Director must create Translation Accelerators to speed up research, development, and turning new technologies into real products in the program’s main tech areas. Each Accelerator must be a partnership made up of at least two of these kinds of organizations: a college or university, a for-profit company, a nonprofit group, a Federal agency, or another organization the Director thinks is important. The Director must make these partnerships at the organization level, not just between individual researchers. At least 25 percent of an institute’s money must come from non-Federal sources, and the Director should try to keep the number of Translation Accelerators balanced with the number of Regional Innovation Engines. From the funds available to the Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships, $6,500,000,000 is authorized for fiscal years 2023 through 2027 to carry out these activities and related activities elsewhere in the law.