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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... reasons explained below , we have selected for close examination primarily those laboratories operated by or managed for the Federal Government . And we want to answer one question : What do these institutions do and how well do they do ...
... reasons explained below , we have selected for close examination primarily those laboratories operated by or managed for the Federal Government . And we want to answer one question : What do these institutions do and how well do they do ...
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... reason for examining it . A second reason is that these institutions manifest the issues of " Big Science " in their most acute form : How do we translate basic scientific concepts into operating systems ? How do we break down the ...
... reason for examining it . A second reason is that these institutions manifest the issues of " Big Science " in their most acute form : How do we translate basic scientific concepts into operating systems ? How do we break down the ...
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... reasons of public policy , none of these programs has been undertaken . Our mechanisms for making choices regarding the initiation of new technology developments are still rudimentary . We have , as subsequent chapters will show , an ...
... reasons of public policy , none of these programs has been undertaken . Our mechanisms for making choices regarding the initiation of new technology developments are still rudimentary . We have , as subsequent chapters will show , an ...
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... reason to discuss them ; a really large development program like Apollo at its height employed over 400 000 persons and generated $ 24 billion in expenditures , all of which as NASA officials liked to point out were spent on Earth ...
... reason to discuss them ; a really large development program like Apollo at its height employed over 400 000 persons and generated $ 24 billion in expenditures , all of which as NASA officials liked to point out were spent on Earth ...
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... reasons , farmed before turning to engineering . The Brooklyn Bridge , which Roebling designed but did not live to build , embodied all of the basic elements of the modern suspension bridge . It was also , when it was completed , half ...
... reasons , farmed before turning to engineering . The Brooklyn Bridge , which Roebling designed but did not live to build , embodied all of the basic elements of the modern suspension bridge . It was also , when it was completed , half ...
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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.