Since NASA's creation, technologies developed to advance NASA missions have found secondary applications, leading to products, services, and processes that create jobs, generate profits, improve efficiencies, and even save and improve lives. Despite a general consensus that these "spinoff" benefits are prevalent, no consistent methodology, analytic framework, or sustainable system has been established to quantify their benefits using standardized measurements. Over the years many efforts have attempted to quantify benefits. Each, however, has had limitations including scope, data integrity, and sustainability. NASA has historically recorded its benefits anecdotally in its annual Spinoff report with qualitative discussions and ad hoc quantification, but has not developed a systematic method for capturing quantifiable benefits. This paper describes a new approach that NASA is developing to systematically and routinely capture quantitative benefits from its Spinoff stories each year, using a framework that is sustainable over time. Surveying approximately 200 commercialized technologies recently featured in Spinoff, NASA has developed a suite of standard categories that can be used to quantify benefits. By surveying firms represented by those stories in Spinoff, NASA was able to collect additional quantitative data retrospectively. NASA will use these new categories to collect and standardize reporting data each year, as the stories are collected and developed. While not comprehensive of all benefits generated by the Nation's investment in space research and technology, this new analytic framework provides a sustainable and consistent source of data from the top technology transfer successes published in Spinoff each year, with the data coming directly from the firms that are commercializing NASA technologies. The new quantification categories include: jobs created; revenue generated; productivity and efficiency improvements; lives saved/not lost; and lives improved
