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Leveraging Defense Research: Societal Impact of the Transfer of Polycrystalline Diamond Drill Bit Research
- Comparative Technology Transfer and Society
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 3, Number 3, December 2005
- pp. 267-300
- 10.1353/ctt.2006.0004
- Article
- Additional Information
This paper applies a method to identify and evaluate the impact of the transfer of a technology, polycrystalline diamond drill bits, from Sandia National Laboratories to the drill bit industry. Impact includes economic effect and effect not readily quantifiable in dollar values. The impact profile indicates a very positive outcome. A range of cost–benefit ratios was found when two valid, yet different, sets of assumptions were used.