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World Technology Evaluation Center, Inc.
Report Archive
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WTEC is the nation's leading organization in conducting international technology assessments. During the 1990s, it was called the World Technology Evaluation Center (WTEC) Division of Loyola University Maryland. In 2001, WTEC was spun off into a separate nonprofit corporation by R. D. Shelton. Most recently it was headed by Patricia Foland as president.
Over the years WTEC has conducted more than 80 international technology assessments using an on-site peer review methodology that many believe is the best single way to get accurate results. Sponsors included most of the U.S. Government's research agencies: NSF, NIH, DoD, Department of Energy, NIST and many others. Panelists are some of the nation's leading experts. Past panelists include the Director of the NSF, Directors of the DOE Office of Science (3), the Chief of Naval Research, vice presidents of research for IBM, Bell Labs, and hundreds of other leading scientists and engineers.
A report archive is posted below. Many reports become books by major publishers. Recent ones published by Springer are on: converging technologies, nanotechnology 2020, biosensing, systems biology, micromanufacturing, and brain computer interfaces. The Imperial College Press has published books on robotics, nanocatalysis, and simulation-based engineering. The Academic Press, Kluwer, and Noyes Publishers published a half-dozen WTEC books earlier. A search for "WTEC" at amazon.com will find many of them. A YouTube Channel with videos of recent studies is at http://wtec.us
Based on this body of knowledge about the best technologies abroad, a new company World TechTransfer LLC has been organized to make some of those international technologies available in the U.S. The initial focus is on critically needed technologies to defend against the coronavirus pandemic. More information is at http://wtec2.com
WTEC Reports
- International Assesment of Nanomodular Materials and Systems By Design
(2016)
Sponsored by NSF
Final Report in PDF Format | Final Workshop (webcast) - Global Assessment of Biological Engineering & Manufacturing: WTEC Report (2015)
Sponsored by NSF
Final Report in PDF Format | Final Workshop (webcast) - Global Assessment of Research in Neuroimaging: WTEC Report on Europe and Asia (2014)
Sponsored by NSF, NIH, and ONR
Final Report in PDF Format | Final Workshop (webcast) - Assessment of Physical Science and Engineering
Advances in
Life
Sciences and Oncology (APHELION) in Europe and Asia (2014)
Sponsored by NIH and NSF
Final Report in PDF Format | Final Workshop (webcast) - Systems Engineering For Clean and Renewable Energy Manufacturing in Europe and Asia (2013)
Sponsored by NSF
Final Report in PDF Format | Final Workshop (webcast) - Convergence of Knowledge, Technology, and Society:
Beyond Convergence of Nano-Bio-Info-Cognitive Technologies (2013)
Sponsored by NSF, NIH, NASA, EPA, DOD, and USDA
Report| Final Workshop (webcast) - Global Assessment of Stem Cell Engineering (2013)
Sponsored by NIH, NIST, and NSF
Final Report in PDF Format| Final Workshop (webcast) - Assessment of Physical Science and Engineering
Advances in
Life
Sciences and Oncology (APHELION) in Europe (2012)
Sponsored by NIH and NSF
Final Report in PDF Format| Final Workshop (webcast) - International Assessment of R&D in Human-Robot
Interaction
(2012)
Sponsored by NSF
Final Report in PDF Format - European Research and Development in Mobility Technology
for
People with Disabilities (2011)
Sponsored by NSF, NIH, NIBIB, and DVA
Final Report in PDF Format - International Assessment of Research and Development in
Rapid
Vaccine Manufacturing (2010)
Sponsored by NSF, DHHS, and USDA
Final Report in PDF Format - International Assessment of Nanotechnology Research
Directions
for Societal Needs in 2020
Retrospective and Outlook (2010)
Sponsored by NSF
Final Report in PDF Format| Final Workshop(webcast) - International Assessment of Research and Development in
Flexible
Hybrid Electronics (2010)
Sponsored by NSF and ONR
Final Report in PDF Format - International Assessment of Research and Development in
Simulation-Based Engineering and Science (SBE&S) (2009)
Sponsored by NSF, DOE, NASA, NIH, NIST, and DOD.
Final Report in PDF Format - International Assessment of Research and Development in
Catalysis by Nanostructured Materials (2009)
Sponsored by NSF, DOE, AFOSR, and DTRA.
Final Report in PDF Format - International Assessment of Research and Development in
Rapid Vaccine Manufacturing (2007)
Sponsored by NSF, NIBIB, NIST, and USDA.
Final Report in PDF Format - International Assessment of Research and Development in
Brain-Computer Interfaces (2007)
Sponsored by NSF, TATRC, NINDS, NIBIB, the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI), and the Margot Anderson Brain Restoration Foundation.
Final Report in PDF Format| - International Assessment of Research and Development on
Carbon Nanotubes: Manufacturing and Applications (2007)
Sponsored by: NSF, ONR, NIBIB, and NIST
Final Report in PDF Format - International Assessment of Resarch and Development in
Robotics
(2006)
Sponsored by: NSF, NASA, and NIBIB
Final Report in PDF Format - International Assessment of Research and Development in
Micromanufacturing (2005)
Sponsored by: NSF, DOE, ONR, and NIST-ATP
Final Report in PDF Format - International Assessment of Research and Development in
Systems
Biology (2005)
Sponsored by: NSF, DARPA, NIH, NASA, DoE, EPA, and NIST
Final Report in PDF Format - Operations Research for Healthcare Delivery Systems (2005)
Sponsored by: NSF and AHRQ
Final Report in PDF Format - Assessment of High-End Computing Research and Development
in
Japan (2004)
Sponsored by: NSF, DOE, NITRD, and NASA
Final Report in PDF Format - European Research and Development in Additive/Subtractive
Manufacturing (2004)
Sponsored by: NSF, DARPA, ONR, and NIST
Final Report in PDF Format - International Research and Development in Biosensing (2004)
Sponsored by: NSF, NIH, NIBIB, USDA, NASA, and ARO
Final Report in PDF Format - Microsystems Research in Japan (2003)
Sponsored by: NSF, DARPA, ONR, and NIST
Final Report in PDF Format - Spin Electronics (2003)
Sponsored by: NSF, DARPA, ONR, NIST, and DOD
Final Report in PDF Format - Tissue Engineering Research (2002)
Sponsored by: NSF, DARPA, NASA, NIST, NIH, and FDA
Final Report in PDF Format - Applying Molecular and Materials Modeling (2002)
Sponsored by: NSF, DOE, NIST, NIH, and AFOSR
Final Report in PDF Format
Sample Conference Reports Supported by WTEC
- US-EC Workshop on Infrastructure Needs of Systems Biology
(2007)
Sponsored by: NSF, USDA, and European Commission (EC)Directly from our website |
- Building
Electronic Function into Molecular Architectures (2007)
Sponsored by: NSF - Sensors
for Environmental Observatories (2005)
Sponsored by: NSF - Quantitative
Systems
Biotechnology (2000)
Sponsored by: NSF - Phase I: Identification of Successful International Models
for
Scalable Engineering Codes (2009)
Sponsored by: HPCMP
Final Report in PDF Format - Phase II: International Workshop on Scalable Engineering
Software
(2010)
Sponsored by: HPCMP
Final Report in PDF Format
Study Reports by Loyola/ITRI/WTEC
- Environmentally Benign Manufacturing (2001)
Sponsored by: NSF and DOE
|Final Report in PDF Format | - High-Temperature Electronics in Europe (2000)
| Final Report | - Wireless Technologies and Information Networks (2000)
Sponsored by: NSF, DOD, DARPA, ONR, NIST, and NASA
| Report - MEMS and Microsystems in Europe (2000)
Sponsored by: NSF
| Report | - The Future of Data Storage Technologies (1999)
Sponsored by: NSF, DARPA, and NIST
| Report | - Japan's Key Technology Center Program (1999)
Sponsored by: NSF, DARPA, and DOC
| Report | - Digital Information Organization in Japan (1999)
Sponsored by: NSF and DARPA
| Report | - Nanotechnology Research Directions: IWGN Workshop Report
(1999)
Sponsored by: The White House and NSTC
| Report | - Nanostructure Science and Technology: R&D Status
and Trends
in Nanoparticles, Nanostructured Materials, and Nanodevices (1998)
Sponsored by: NSF, ONR, DARPA, NASA, DOE, AFOSR, NIST, and NIH
| Report | - Global Satellite Communications Technology and Systems
(1998)
Sponsored by: NSF and NASA
| Report | - Use of Composite Materials in Civil Infrastructure in Japan
(1998)
Sponsored by: NSF
| Report | - Mechatronics in Japan: a Trip Report (1998)
Sponsored by: ONR
| Report | - Electronic Applications of Superconductivity in Japan (1998)
Sponsored by: NSF and DARPA
| Report | - Russian Research and Development on Nanoparticles and
Nanostructured Materials (1997)
Sponsored by: NSF, ONR, NIH, NIST, AFOSR, DOC, DOE, and NASA
Report - Power Applications of Superconductivity (1997)
Sponsored by: NSF and DOE
Report - Electronics Manufacturing in the Pacific Rim (1997)
Sponsored by: NSF, DARPA, and NEMI
| Report | - Advanced Casting Technologies in Japan and Europe (1997)
Sponsored by: NSF, DOE, and DOC
| Report | - Rapid Prototyping in Europe and Japan (1997)
Sponsored by: NSF, DOE, DARPA, ONR, and DOC
|Report |
|Site Reports | - Japan's ERATO and PRESTO Basic Research Programs (1996)
Sponsored by: NSF and DOC
| Report | - Submersibles and Marine Technologies In Russia's Far East
and
Siberia (1996)
Sponsored by: NSF and ONR
| Report | - Human-Computer Interaction Technologies in Japan (1996)
Sponsored by: NSF, ONR, DARPA, and DOC
| Report | - Optoelectronics in Japan and the United States (1996)
Sponsored by: NSF, ARPA, DOC, ONR, NIST, and DOE
| Report | - Electronic Manufacturing and Packaging in Japan (1995)
Sponsored by: NSF, ARPA, NASA, and DOC
| Report | - Biodegradable Polymers and Plastics in Japan (1995)
Sponsored by: NSF
| Report | - Display Technologies in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (1994)
Sponsored by: NSF and ARPA
| Report | Executive Summary | Table of Contents |
Note: The older reports below have only a simple executive summary posted, not including illustrations. For early WTEC and JTEC reports 1984-1994, please see the ITRI monograph posted at http://scienceus.org/wtec/old/BenchmarkTechnologiesAbroad.pdf
- Microelectromechanical Systems in Japan (1994)
Sponsored by: NSF, ARPA, AFOSR, and DOC
| Executive Summary | - Research Submersibles and Undersea Technologies in Russia,
Ukraine, and Western Europe (1994)
Sponsored by: NSF, and ARPA
| Executive Summary | - Advanced Manufacturing Technology for Polymer Composite
Structures In Japan (1994)
Sponsored by: NSF, DOE, ARO, and AFOSR
| Executive Summary | - Knowledge-Based Systems in Japan (1993)
Sponsored by: NSF and ARPA
| Executive Summary | - Satellite Communications Systems and Technology (1993)
Sponsored by: NSF and NASA
| Executive Summary | - Display Technologies in Japan (1992)
Sponsored by: NSF, ARPA, and AFOSR
| Executive Summary |
Some earlier reports are available in libraries and at amazon.com.
Material contained in this website is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant no. ENG-0844639 and other NSF awards. Other federal agencies contributing to WTEC reports include the Department of Defense, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Commerce, and others.