---
kind: "unit"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
key: "ch63"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 63"
heading: "Technology Innovation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/ch63"
sections_count: 37
---

# Chapter 63 — Technology Innovation

Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

## Sections

- [§3701. Findings](/usc/15/3701.md)
- [§3702. Purpose](/usc/15/3702.md)
- [§3703. Definitions](/usc/15/3703.md)
- [§3704. Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Technology](/usc/15/3704.md)
- [§3704a. Clearinghouse for State and Local Initiatives on Productivity, Technology, and Innovation](/usc/15/3704a.md)
- [§3704b. National Technical Information Service](/usc/15/3704b.md)
- [§3704b–1. Recovery of operating costs through fee collections](/usc/15/3704b-1.md)
- [§3704b–2. Transfer of Federal scientific and technical information](/usc/15/3704b-2.md)
- [§3705. Cooperative Research Centers](/usc/15/3705.md)
- [§3706. Grants and cooperative agreements](/usc/15/3706.md)
- [§3707. National Science Foundation Cooperative Research Centers](/usc/15/3707.md)
- [§3708. Administrative arrangements](/usc/15/3708.md)
- [§3709. Repealed.](/usc/15/3709.md)
- [§3710. Utilization of Federal technology](/usc/15/3710.md)
- [§3710a. Cooperative research and development agreements](/usc/15/3710a.md)
- [§3710b. Rewards for scientific, engineering, and technical personnel of Federal agencies](/usc/15/3710b.md)
- [§3710c. Distribution of royalties received by Federal agencies](/usc/15/3710c.md)
- [§3710d. Employee activities](/usc/15/3710d.md)
- [§3711. National Technology and Innovation Medal](/usc/15/3711.md)
- [§3711a. Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award](/usc/15/3711a.md)
- [§3711b. Conference on advanced automotive technologies](/usc/15/3711b.md)
- [§3711c. Advanced motor vehicle research award](/usc/15/3711c.md)
- [§3712. Personnel exchanges](/usc/15/3712.md)
- [§3713. Authorization of appropriations](/usc/15/3713.md)
- [§3714. Spending authority](/usc/15/3714.md)
- [§3715. Use of partnership intermediaries](/usc/15/3715.md)
- [§3716. Critical industries](/usc/15/3716.md)
- [§3717. National Quality Council](/usc/15/3717.md)
- [§3718. President’s Council on Innovation and Competitiveness](/usc/15/3718.md)
- [§3719. Prize competitions](/usc/15/3719.md)
- [§3720. Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship](/usc/15/3720.md)
- [§3721. Federal loan guarantees for innovative technologies in manufacturing](/usc/15/3721.md)
- [§3722. Regional innovation program](/usc/15/3722.md)
- [§3722a. Regional Technology and Innovation Hub Program](/usc/15/3722a.md)
- [§3722b. Distressed area Recompete Pilot Program](/usc/15/3722b.md)
- [§3723. STEM apprenticeship programs](/usc/15/3723.md)
- [§3724. Crowdsourcing and citizen science](/usc/15/3724.md)