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Content: The political nature of civilian R & D management / Stephen A. Merrill -- Can you innovate in Uncle Sam's embrace? / Arlen J. Large -- Federal policy concerns regarding commercialization of federally funded R & D / Richard Penn -- Productivity in federally funded R & D programs / Albert T. Maasberg -- Cooperative agreements : a key to accelerated industrial innovation / Michael Michaelis -- The federal role in industrial energy conservation technology / Douglas G. Harvey -- NASA technology utilization program / Leonard A. Ault -- Patents and technology transfer / William O. Quesenberry -- Commercialization of technology through the federal laboratory consortium for technology transfer / Charles F. Miller -- Commercialization of R & D results / Robert J. Creagan -- Commercialization and the assessment of federal R & D / George Tolley and Stuart Townsend -- Assessing the government role in the commercialization of federally funded R & D / Alden S. Bean and J. David Roessner -- Federal R & D as an internal push for commercialization of technology / Clyde McKinley -- Commercialization of a new starch-based polymer / William M. Doane.
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Federal R&D and Scientific Innovation Leonard A. Ault, EDITOR NASA W. Novis Smith, EDITOR Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Based on a symposium sponsored by the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry at the 176th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Miami Beach, Florida, September 11-14, 1978. ACS SYMPOSIUM SERIES 105 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY WASHINGTON, D. C. 1979 In Federal R&D and Scientific Innovation; Ault, L., et al.; ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 1979. Library of Congress Data Federal R & D and scientific innovation (ACS symposium series; 105 ISSN 0097-6156) "Based on a symposium sponsored by the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry at the 176th meeting of the American Chemical Society, Miami Beach, Florida, September 11-14, 1978." Includes bibliographies and index. 1. Federal aid to research—United States. 2. Techno logical innovations—United States. I. Ault, Leonard Α., 1933. II. Smith, William Novis, 1937. III. American Chemical Society. Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. IV. Series: American Chemical Society. ACS symposium series; 105. Q180.U5F39 338.4'7'607273 79-13114 ISBN 0-8412-0507-8 ACSMC8 105 1-184 1979 Copyright © 1979 American Chemical Society All Rights Reserved. The appearance of the code at the bottom of thefirstpage of each article in this volume indicates the copyright owner's consent that reprographic copies of the article may be made for personal or internal use or for the personal or internal use of specific clients. This consent is given on the condition, however, that the copier pay the stated per copy fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. for copying beyond that permitted by Sections 107 or 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law. This consent does not extend to copying or transmission by any means—graphic or electronic—for any other purpose, such as for general distribution, for advertising or promotional purposes, for creating new collective works, for resale, or for information storage and retrieval systems. The citation of trade names and/or names of manufacturers in this publication is not to be construed as an endorsement or as approval by ACS of the commercial products or services referenced herein; nor should the mere reference herein to any drawing, specification, chemical process, or other data be regarded as a license or as a conveyance of any right or permission, to the holder, reader, or any other person or corporation, to manufacture, repro duce, use, or sell any patented invention o