Research Activities of the BTER Foundation

Research is a primary element of the BTER Foundation mission. Funding may be very limited, but the Foundation has leveraged those funds to:

1. initiate preliminary studies that could later compete for larger grants;
2. conduct low-cost surveys that ultimately support larger studies, where a need has been demonstrated;
3. conduct health care policy & administration studies, which otherwise might not be performed because they do not as glamorous as product-discovery research, and do not result in patentable products;
4. help complete research already underway, where funds are otherwise inadequate;
5. help publish research already completed, in order to share the results with a wider community.

For more information about current and past research by the BTER Foundation and its Board of Directors, check out these pages:

• Current Research Projects
• Proposed Research, in search of Funding
• Past Research and Other Recent Publications by the Board of Directors