AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AFRL) COMMERCIALIZATION
Commercialization consists of identifying AFRL technologies with the highest
commercial potential. WTN performs a rigorous market assessment of the AFRL
technology - including assessment of competing technologies, delineation of
intellectual property issues, and assessment of manufacturing and other
issues that may be barriers to commercialization. If the market
assessment is favorable, WTN matches the AFRL technology with a business
that can successfully develop, manufacture, and sell the products derived
from the technology. WTN facilitates an agreement between AFRL and the
company. WTN may also assist in funding business partners for the company
to ensure a successful venture. Throughout the Commercialization process,
WTN evaluates the effort to determine best practices and to examine
leading-edge metrics that might have success-predictive potential.
Technologies that are identified as having no immediate commercialization
potential are tracked for future use as they mature. This allows WTN to
successfully transfer developing technologies to the commercial sector more
quickly and to find businesses that would be interested in applying AFRL
technologies in their products and services.
Commercialization Success Stories
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