---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 C.F.R. § 17.5"
title: "15"
number: "17.5"
heading: "Personnel exchanges to a Federal laboratory."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/15/17.5"
---

# §17.5. Personnel exchanges to a Federal laboratory.


For exchanges in which a Federal laboratory provides funds for the non-federal personnel—

- (a) Outside personnel with expertise in scientific commercialization may be brought in to a Federal laboratory through the Presidential Innovation Fellows program or related programs (see [5 CFR 213.3102(r)](/cfr/5/213.3102.md?p=r)) for Entrepreneur-In-Residence programs or similar, related programs run by the General Services Administration (GSA) or other Federal Agencies.
- (b) A laboratory may engage with the GSA or other relevant Agency to transfer funding for exchanged personnel, and may work with such agency to select and place Entrepreneurs-In-Residence at the laboratory for the purposes of evaluating the laboratory's technologies, and providing technical consulting to facilitate readying a technology for commercialization by an outside entity.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3712.

### Source

Source: 81 FR 73025, Oct. 24, 2016, unless otherwise noted.