Sec. 6. Regional Engagement and Research
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In this subsection: The term economic development agency has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act ( 29 U.S.C. 3102 ). The term regional entity means a State, local government, economic development agency, or small- or medium-sized business. The Secretary, after identifying barriers to the access of regional entities to cooperative research and development agreements, shall establish policies to increase that access. The Secretary shall establish a pilot program, to be administered through the Office of Technology Transitions (in coordination with the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy), to award grants to post-graduate researchers for the purpose of spinning off and licensing technology.
The Secretary may award grants under the program established under paragraph (1). To be eligible for a grant under this paragraph, an applicant shall submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such form, and containing such information as the Secretary may require. The Secretary may include, in a management and operating contract for a National Laboratory, partnership agreements with institutions of higher education. The purpose of a partnership described in paragraph
(1)is— to provide incentives to the National Laboratories (in coordination with technology transfer offices within the Department and the National Laboratories) to use technology transfer capabilities within an institution of higher education that enter into a partnership agreement under paragraph (1); and to support graduate and post-graduate researchers at the National Laboratories participating in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. The Secretary may pay to the contractor of a management and operating contract described in paragraph (1)— compensation for entering into the partnership agreement described in that paragraph; and the costs of the partnership described in that paragraph.
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