# Technology Innovation-Personnel Exchanges
> **National Institute of Standards and Technology** · Final rule. · Published 2016-10-24 · Effective 2016-11-23 · 81 FR 73024
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-25355
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** National Institute of Standards and Technology
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 73024
- **CFR reference:** 15 CFR 17
- **Publication date:** 2016-10-24
- **Effective date:** 2016-11-23
- **Commerce docket:** Docket No.: 160311228-6788-02
## Abstract

This final rule clarifies the appropriate use of Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) authority by a Federal laboratory for personnel exchanges where the Federal laboratory has an existing relationship with the potential partner through another legal mechanism, as well as in the context of joint research projects or the development of existing laboratory technology, and through use of the General Services Administration's Presidential Innovation Fellows program for Federal laboratory Entrepreneur-In-Residence programs. Another objective of this rulemaking is to remove outdated regulations addressing the licensing of inventions owned by the Department of Commerce.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/10/24/2016-25355/technology-innovation-personnel-exchanges)
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