The Management of Research Institutions: A Look at Government LaboratoriesScientific and Technical Information Branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1984 - 306 pages |
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... final operational phase . The agency does not stand in relation to its contractors simply as customer to vendor . In many cases , the " customer " cannot state very precisely in advance what kind of operating system is desired . It is ...
... final operational phase . The agency does not stand in relation to its contractors simply as customer to vendor . In many cases , the " customer " cannot state very precisely in advance what kind of operating system is desired . It is ...
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... final chapter will gather all these threads together by reviewing three major problems - or one problem with three aspects - within the organization : how to adjust to changing roles and missions , how to find or keep sponsors , and how ...
... final chapter will gather all these threads together by reviewing three major problems - or one problem with three aspects - within the organization : how to adjust to changing roles and missions , how to find or keep sponsors , and how ...
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... final configuration of the system . The first serious conversations about the Space Shuttle were conducted in 1968 in connection with then - Administrator Paine's call to start thinking about a " post - Apollo " program for NASA . The ...
... final configuration of the system . The first serious conversations about the Space Shuttle were conducted in 1968 in connection with then - Administrator Paine's call to start thinking about a " post - Apollo " program for NASA . The ...
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... final point pertains to what constitutes productivity in a research and development environment . Defining productivity calls to mind the perplexity of the philosopher in defining time : " I know well enough what it is , provided that ...
... final point pertains to what constitutes productivity in a research and development environment . Defining productivity calls to mind the perplexity of the philosopher in defining time : " I know well enough what it is , provided that ...
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... which there is seemingly no payoff is of the utmost importance , and we will return to it in our final chapter . ― CHAPTER V The Structure of Technology Development Laboratories Obstacles to 90 THE MANAGEMENT OF RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS.
... which there is seemingly no payoff is of the utmost importance , and we will return to it in our final chapter . ― CHAPTER V The Structure of Technology Development Laboratories Obstacles to 90 THE MANAGEMENT OF RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS.
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Page 28 - Act, to the endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislature of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Page 28 - Act of 1862 was a comprehensive measure, providing for "the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college [in each State] where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 265 - Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution...
Page 272 - Act to be to establish and vigorously conduct a comprehensive, national program of basic and applied research and development, including but not limited to demonstrations of practical applications, of all potentially beneficial energy sources and utilization technologies, within the Energy Research and Development Administration.
Page 267 - Foundation should develop and promote a national policy for scientific research and scientific education, should support basic research in nonprofit organizations, should develop scientific talent in American youth by means of scholarships and fellowships, and should by contract and otherwise support long-range research on military matters.
Page 72 - Weinberg sought to diversify, while maintaining good relations with the Atomic Energy Commission and the congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.
Page 214 - Laboratory Lawrence Liver-more National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory Pacific Northwest Laboratory...
Page 259 - Research projects which represent investigation directed to discovery of new scientific knowledge and which have specific commercial objectives with respect to either products or processes.
Page i - Anxiety for the future time disposeth men to inquire into the causes of things; because the knowledge of them maketh men the better able to order the present to their best advantage.
Page 88 - What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobody asks me; but if I am asked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.