Improving Industry-Government Cooperative R&D

摘要

The February 1995 report of the Energy Secretary's Task Force on Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories—known widely as the Galvin committee report—challenged the laboratories' role in civilian technology development. Many of the issues in this debate first surfaced in discussions over the legislative initiatives of the 1980s, the Technology Transfer Acts and the Bayh-Dole Act, that restructured the relationships between private firms and these national research installations. That legislative foundation formed the basis for the Clinton administration's efforts to employ the federal laboratories to conduct research whose primary aim was the improvement of U.S. industrial competitiveness.