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Featured Article: Inreach Equals Better Outreach
Inreach Equals Better Outreach
by M. Buckley
When the APL Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) opened in 1999, its earliest programs introduced Lab staff to the office itself and to the invention process—like steps to protect intellectual property or rules for licensing government-funded developments. The Invention of the Year awards (started in 2000) brought APL inventors their first Lab-wide recognition.
These successful initiatives helped to develop a smarter audience, and as OTT enters its second decade, its “inreach” programs are evolving to match today’s information needs.