ASTM International, a global standards organization, is set to host an organizational meeting to potentially launch a new group to create technical standards for emerging technology commercialization (ETC). The meeting will be held virtually on Aug. 26, 2024.

Over the past year, ASTM has been working with a diverse group of stakeholders to explore the need for standards that help enable innovation that fuels economic growth, and creation of new industries, companies, jobs, and products and services. ETC, in which the private sector further develops emerging research for use in the marketplace, is one such driver of successful innovation.

"These stakeholders have recommended the formation of a new ASTM technical committee to address early standards development in support of emerging technology commercialization," notes Christina Lomasney, chief commercialization officer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. "This community of stakeholders believes that ASTM is the right forum to address development of standards, practices, and guides in this domain."

The scope of the proposed ETC committee would include the development of standards, specifications, guides, practices, methods, classifications, or terminology for commercialization activities (including intellectual property-based technology transfer) associated with emerging technologies, with emphasis on technology areas identified as critical, emerging and disruptive technologies (i.e., those with high risks associated with them).

At formation, the initial structure of the proposed committee is:

• Executive subcommittee: Responsible for the establishment of the subcommittees and approve the scope and activities of each. Long range planning will be housed within the executive subcommittee and will be led by the vice-chair.
• Terminology: designations of common terms, their meanings, symbols, abbreviations, and overall editorial norms for standards, templates, and guides.
• Technology transfer: development of practice guides associated with the transfer of technology from inventor or owner to commercialization partners, consortia, or industries.
• Readiness Levels: development of standard practice guides and test methods associated with the designation of levels for technology stages, adoption readiness, associated risks, standards readiness, etc.

All are welcome to review feedback on the proposed scope and officially organize this new ASTM committee, to be held virtually on Aug. 26. 2024. To register for this meeting, visit https://go.astm.org/technology-commercialization-organizational-meeting.

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