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==Technology Innovation Program==

{{update|date=May 2008}}<!-- News suggests that this successor program has in fact been funded and established -->

A new, successor program was enacted but not funded, called the NIST Technology Innovation Program. The Technology Innovation Program (TIP) was established for the purpose of assisting U.S. businesses and institutions of higher education or other organizations, such as national laboratories and nonprofit research institutes, to support, promote, and accelerate innovation in the United States through high-risk, high-reward research in areas of critical national need.

TIP is aimed at speeding the development of high-risk, transformative research targeted to address key societal challenges.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/18614|title=A Billion Here, A Billion There: How the Census Bureau Has Bungled the 2010 US Census|last=Castro|first=Daniel|date=[[2008-05-06]]|work=eGov Monitor|accessdate=[[2008-05-12]]}}</ref><!--not a perfect source -- need to find a more neutral one later...--> Funding could be provided to industry (small and medium-sized businesses), universities, and consortia for research on potentially revolutionary technologies for meeting critical national needs that present high technical risks—with commensurate high rewards if successful. The primary mechanism for this support would be cost-shared research grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts awarded on the basis of merit competitions.