National laboratory relationships with industry and the university community. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications and the Subcommittee on Energy Research and Production of the Committee on Science and Technology, US House of Representatives, Ninety-Seventh Congress, First Session, July 29, 1981, No. 34

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Witnesses representing government, national laboratories, industry, and the universities testified on interactions with DOE labs in response to criticisms that the national labs are depriving private industry and universities of federal research and development funds and that the labs are too slow to transfer new technology to the private sector. Presidential science advisor George Keyworth discussed the need to reevaluate the changing missions of the labs in light of changing national goals. Yale professor Allen Bromley spoke of the labs as a national treasure in terms of national security and in making available research facilities that are beyond the scope of universities or private enterprise. Arthur Bueche of General Electric argued that federal involvement in energy research and development should be limited to longterm, high-risk areas and that placing more work in private labs to begin with would eliminate the barriers to technology transfer. Argonne National Laboratory Director Walter Massey defended the relationship of the 12 multi-purpose national labs with universities as having no counterpart in private industry. (DCK)

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• Language: English

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