| NAR has more than 15 years' experience in assessing
government programs to support technology and innovation.
Most recently, Dr.Gaster has advised TEKES, the research arm of the
Finnish government, on development and implementation of a program to
support small business innovation , modeled on the US Small Business Innovation and Research
Program.
Dr.Gaster is the lead researcher on the current National Research
Council assessment of the SBIR
programs through which the Federal government disburses more than $1.4bn
annually. This research includes an analysis of appropriate
methodologies for addressing very complex questions concerning
commercial and noncommercial returns for these
investments,
In the early 1990s, his work focused on the ambitious technology
support programs of the incoming Clinton Administration. Analyses included
two reports on the National Information Infrastructure for the European
Commission and a consortium of major European IT firms.
In the late 1980s, working at the U.S.Congress Office of Technology Assessment, Dr.Gaster
developed a pioneering analysis of European technology programs from a
competitiveness perspective .
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