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Title: Barriers to domestic technology transfer. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, US House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, July 25, 1991

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OSTI ID:7001501

In opening these hearings, Chairman Dingell pointed to 5 specific pieces of legislation passed in the '80s to aid in the transfer of taxpayer-funded technologies to the private sector from Federal laboratories. At this hearing, the committee was seeking answers to four essential questions to see if the above legislation helped, namely: (1) What does US industry need to more effectively make the transfer happen ; (2) Why is industry not interacting more successfully with Federal laboratories ; (3) What can industry do better ; and (4) What can government do better Testimony was heard from 10 officials from: the Departments of Defense, Energy, and Commerce; Hewlett-Packard Laboratories; National Tooling and Machining Association; Hudson Institute; Ford Motor Co.; National Center for Manufacturing Sciences; and Technology Strategic Planning, Inc. In addition, material was submitted for the record by: Michigan Biotechnology Institute; Motorola, Inc.; and National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

OSTI ID:
7001501
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English