NIST Economic Impact Studies

The studies cited below are recent economic impact assessments of projects undertaken by NIST Measurement and Standards Laboratories. To learn more about the history of NIST's economic studies, http://www.nist.gov/director/planning/study_info.htm

Summary of NIST Impact Study Results

List of impact studies and results: A table showing the outputs and outcomes from completed economic impact assessments of MSL projects, as well as a list of studies currently underway.

Chemicals

• The Economic Impact of the Gas-Mixture NIST-Traceable Reference Materials Program (Planning Report #02-4) [pdf]

Electronics

• The Economic Impacts of Documentary Standards: A Case Study of the Flat Panel Display Measurement Standard (FPDM)

• Economic Analysis of NIST's Low-k Materials Characterization Research (Planning Report #08-2) [pdf]

• Economic Analysis of NIST's Investments in Superfilling Research (Planning Report #08-1) [pdf]

• Economic Impact Assessment of the NIST's Josephson Volt Standard Program (Planning Report #01-1) [pdf]

• Benefit Analysis of IGBT Power Device Simulation Modeling (Planning Report #99-3) [pdf]

Energy

• Economic Impact of Standard Reference Materials for Sulfur in Fossil Fuels (Planning Report #00-1) [pdf]

Health Care

• The Economic Impacts of NIST's Cholesterol Standards Program (Planning Report #00-4) [pdf]

• Economic Evaluation of Radiopharmaceutical Research at NIST (Planning Report #97-2) [pdf]

Impact Assessment Methodology

• The Theory and Practice of Public-Sector R&D Economic Impact Analysis (Planning Report #11-1) [pdf]

• Methods for Assessing the Economic Impacts of Government R&D (Planning Report #03-1) [pdf]

Information Technology

• Economic Impact Assessment of NIST's Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) Program #10-1 [pdf]

• The Economic Impact of Role-Based Access Control (Planning Report #02-1) [pdf]

• The Economic Impacts of NIST's Data Encryption Standard (DES) Program (Planning Report 01-2) [pdf]

Materials

• Retrospective Economic Impact Assessment of the NIST Combinatorial Methods Center (Planning Report #09-1) [pdf]

• Economic Assessment of the NIST Ceramic Phase Diagram Program (Planning Report #98-3) [pdf]

• Economic Assessment of the NIST Alternative Refrigerants Research Program (Planning Report #98-1) [pdf]

• Economic Assessment of the NIST Thermocouple Calibration Program (Planning Report #97-1) [pdf]

Optoelectronics

• Economic Impact Assessment: NIST-EEEL: Laser and Fiberoptic Power and Energy Calibration Services (Planning Report #00-3) [pdf]

Quality

• Economic Evaluation of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (Planning Report #11-2) [pdf]

• Economic Evaluation of the Baldrige National Quality Program (Planning Report #01-3) [pdf]

Transportation

• Economic Impact Assessment of the International Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data (STEP) in Transportation Equipment Industries (Planning Report #02-5) [pdf]