College of Engineering, Design & Computing Events

Preliminary proposal due 21 Aug | Assessing and Predicting Technology Outcomes (APTO)

NSF

APTO is a new $30 million program that funds research to 1) evaluate the effectiveness of research and development investments and 2) create models and information for decision-makers to optimize investments and advance U.S. competitiveness in the long term. The APTO program will support a cohort of projects that will work together to complement each other's research and development (R&D) efforts on technology outcome models to accurately describe three types of technology outcomes: technology capabilities, technology production, and technology use. These models should be able to predict future as well as past states of technology outcomes. Of particular interest are prediction models that are generalizable across multiple technology areas.