Let s face it. The ATP can help you develop the technologies you need to bring new, innovative products and services to market more quickly the scientific and engineering advances you need for dramatic improvements in process or manufacturing technologies the technical edge for tomorrow s markets. ATP means the opportunity to take a revolutionary idea and drive it against all odds to make it a reality. Early Financial Support . Research Support .
Companies control and retain the intellectual property rights to the results of their research.
Technologies with benefits that extend well beyond the companies involved in the project. ATP funds a unique group of projects. Projects that have clearly identified the technical risks and propose a credible approach to solving the problems. Projects where the technical risks mean that the project would not be funded at all, or would be funded at a level so low that progress would be too slow to be at the forefront of rapidly evolving world markets. The ATP stepped up to provide us funds and took risks where venture capitalists would not.