Regulations last checked for updates: May 05, 2024

Title 15 - Commerce and Foreign Trade last revised: Apr 30, 2024
§ 17.5 - Personnel exchanges to a Federal laboratory.

For exchanges in which a Federal laboratory provides funds for the non-federal personnel—

(a) Outside personnel with expertise in scientific commercialization may be brought in to a Federal laboratory through the Presidential Innovation Fellows program or related programs (see 5 CFR 213.3102(r)) for Entrepreneur-In-Residence programs or similar, related programs run by the General Services Administration (GSA) or other Federal Agencies.

(b) A laboratory may engage with the GSA or other relevant Agency to transfer funding for exchanged personnel, and may work with such agency to select and place Entrepreneurs-In-Residence at the laboratory for the purposes of evaluating the laboratory's technologies, and providing technical consulting to facilitate readying a technology for commercialization by an outside entity.

authority: 15 U.S.C. 3712.
source: 81 FR 73025, Oct. 24, 2016, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 15 CFR 17.5