Superconductors: is Japan ahead
In answer to the titles question if the US hopes to compete with Japan in commercializing superconductor technology, the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), a research arm of Congress, recommends that American industry must intensify basic research and work on applications and potential manufacturing processes. Three possible strategies that policy-makers may face in trying to shape a sustained and coordinated superconductivity R and D program are: 1) DOE research should be carried out through the national laboratories; however, the success of this work would hinge on close ties with industry and universities; 2) a more aggressive course to increase support for NSF-funded research and to exhibit a working group involving industry, the university sector, and government agencies for commercialization of high-temperature superconductor research; and 3) alternatively, a federal technology agency for a cabinet-level department of science should be established by the government.
- OSTI ID:
- 6621734
- Journal Information:
- Science (Washington, D.C.); (United States), Journal Name: Science (Washington, D.C.); (United States) Vol. 241; ISSN SCIEA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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