Innovation lies at the heart of EDA’s mission. This indicator captures the impact EDA grants have on innovation and commercialization of technologies which is important to understanding what effect EDA grantee organizations and their activities can have on improving innovative capacity of regions.

This KPI looks into the Patents service level on customers that indicated the patents employees they interacted with were helpful. This is in line with OMB A-11 Sec. 280 HISP requirements.

The Argo program is responsible for providing real-time data for the upper 2000m of ocean heat content globally and for important regions like the Tropical Pacific for detection of El Nino.

This KPI looks into the Patents service level on satisfaction from customers seeking assistance as a pro se applicant when filing a patent application. This is in line with OMB A-11 Sec. 280 HISP requirements.

NIHHIS supports Centers of Excellence for Heat to enable communities to understand the distribution of heat at the neighborhood scale and to plan to address it to mitigate risk in the long run. This initiative is a Justice40 Covered Program.(CPO)

Supporting new research initiatives and the commercialization of research is another category of activity that support economic development. This indicator demonstrate what grantee organizations are doing to support their clients’ research activities either by connecting them to university partners, or by supporting their research as it moves into commercialization and patenting.