IV. The Goals

The specific goals of the TT group have been:

1. To recruit candidates for new products and/or processes from the three internal RR&D Center technical sections and their investigators, and to gather ideas or suggestions for new products from brainstorming sessions, student projects, individual users, and from other organizations, taking into consideration VA Central Office listings of research priorities.

2. To evaluate those projects or products from the standpoint of importance and usefulness to the disabled veteran and, if it is a product, how likely it is to be successfully commercialized.

3. To bring selected products into the commercial market as quickly as possible.

4. To keep the academic, clinical, and rehabilitation communities, as well as industry, informed of our activities, our projects, our capabilities, and our success rate for commercialization.