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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... responsibility for everything in the text , we feel that , insofar as we accomplished what we set out to do , much credit is due to those persons who encouraged us , criticized our drafts , and eased the pains of bringing a book to ...
... responsibility for everything in the text , we feel that , insofar as we accomplished what we set out to do , much credit is due to those persons who encouraged us , criticized our drafts , and eased the pains of bringing a book to ...
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... responsibilities to lower echelons and then find ways to make sure the delegations accomplish their purposes without harmful compartmentation . " ( ref . 6. ) The organization must be adaptive ; " no longer can you have a grand idea and ...
... responsibilities to lower echelons and then find ways to make sure the delegations accomplish their purposes without harmful compartmentation . " ( ref . 6. ) The organization must be adaptive ; " no longer can you have a grand idea and ...
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... responsibility . " ( ref . 10. ) Because weapons systems , space , and many energy projects are truly national projects , the sponsoring agency must go outside the walls for the skills . and expertise necessary to take the project from ...
... responsibility . " ( ref . 10. ) Because weapons systems , space , and many energy projects are truly national projects , the sponsoring agency must go outside the walls for the skills . and expertise necessary to take the project from ...
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... responsibilities , many of the conclusions drawn in this book with respect to the latter apply as well to the former . The similarities extend to the number of disciplines under one roof , the need for expensive facilities and large ...
... responsibilities , many of the conclusions drawn in this book with respect to the latter apply as well to the former . The similarities extend to the number of disciplines under one roof , the need for expensive facilities and large ...
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... responsibility for monitoring thousands of subcontractors . The work of the pre - 1939 research bureaus , whether it involved setting product standards , testing airplane models in wind tunnels , or mapping the United States , was ...
... responsibility for monitoring thousands of subcontractors . The work of the pre - 1939 research bureaus , whether it involved setting product standards , testing airplane models in wind tunnels , or mapping the United States , was ...
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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.