In line with the Council’s first-year report, the U.S. Embassy recruited an expert in technology transfer through the State Department Embassy Science Fellow (ESF) program. Dr. Ghidewon Arefe, an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at DOD, initiated his two-month fellowship with a presentation to the Council on how a technology transfer regulatory framework spurs innovation. Dr. Arefe pointed to the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (www.federallabs.org) as a U.S. platform that connects entrepreneurs to funding and lab resources.
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