Cooperative Research and Development Agreements

The Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAS) are joint ventures between NIST and private entities including both for-profit companies and also non-profit educational institutions. Any and all companies can participate in a CRADA. Each party provides staff, equipment, and facilities to undertake joint research with potential for commercialization. Each CRADA is negotiated separately over a 6- to 8-week period.

CRADAs were created to increase the collaboration of federal laboratories with knowledge-based companies and industries. CRADAs allow a company and a federal laboratory to jointly develop new technology that may result in a new commercial venture -- one that creates new manufacturing jobs.

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