Advanced Technology Program Case Study: Early Stage Impacts of the Printed WiringBoard Research Joint Venture, Assessed at Project End

摘要

This report summarizes the technical accomplishments and presents selectedmeasures of research efficiencies and early stage economic impacts of the Printed Wiring Board (PWB) Research Joint Venture Project. The ATP has an evaluation program to assess how well the funded projects meet technological milestones, to determine their short-run impacts and ultimately, their long-run impacts, and to improve the program's effectiveness. This study addresses a five-year joint venture funded in the 1990 competition, ATP's first. The PWB Research Joint Venture Project was first addressed in an interim evaluation study in April 1993, which focuses on early gains in research efficiencies in the project and early gains in productivity improvements by project participants up to that time. This report updates the 1993 study by ducumenting the technical accomplishments of the PWB Research Joint Venture Project through completion of the ATP funding period in 1996, and by offering selected quantitative and qualitative measures of research cost savings and early stage economic impacts realized by the end of that same period.