Cover -- Front Matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- I PREFACE -- Preface -- II INTRODUCTION -- Introduction -- III FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- Review of The Advanced Technology Program Summary of Findings -- IV PROCEEDINGS -- Welcome -- Panel I: The ATP Objective: Addressing the Financing Gap for Enabling Technologies -- Panel II: ATP's Assessment Program -- Panel III: Stimulating R&D Investment -- Panel IV: Assessing Progress: Case Study Cluster -- Panel V: Assessing the ATP Assessment Program: Challenges and Policy Issues -- V RESEARCH PAPERS -- The ATP Competition Structure -- Leveraging Research and Development: The Impact of the Advanced Technology Program -- Estimating Economic Benefits from ATP Funding of New Medical Technologies -- Enhanced R&D Efficiency in an ATP-funded Joint Venture -- Estimating Future Benefits from ATP Funding of Digital Data Storage -- Perspectives on the Determinants of Success in ATP-sponsored R&D Joint Ventures: The Views of Participants -- Taking a Step Back: An Early Results Overview of Fifty ATP Awards -- VI ANNEX -- Annex A: Authorizing Legislation for the Advanced Technology Program -- Annex B: Biographies of Contributors -- Annex C: Participants List* 25 April 2000 Conference -- Annex D: Internal and External Reviews of the ATP, Analyses Commissioned by the Office of Economic Assessment -- Annex E: Bibliography.