Diffusing innovations : implementing the Technology Transfer Act of 1986 : report to the Chairman, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives / United States General Accounting Office.

  • United States. General Accounting Office.
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[1991]
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Credit: Diffusing innovations : implementing the Technology Transfer Act of 1986 : report to the Chairman, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives / United States General Accounting Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Glossary Circular A-11 Cooperative Research and Development Agreement Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-11, Information on Research and Development, requires executive departments to submit information annually on their research and development programs, including technology transfer activities. The information is used by OMB in its review of agency budget requests, governmentwide resource allo- cation, and preparation of the special analysis on research and development. Cooperative research and development agreements are contracts between one or more federal laboratories and one or more nonfederal parties under which a laboratory provides personnel, services, facilities, equipment, or other resources (not including funds) to conduct specified research and development efforts that are consistent with the missions of the laboratories. Laboratory License Office of Research and Technology Applications Patent leased, or otherwise used by a federal agency, a substantial purpose of which is the performance of research, development, or engineering by employees of the federal government. For the purposes of our question- naire, the determination of which research organizations count as labo- ratories was settled on an agency-by-agency basis. A license is a contract that gives permission to make, use, or sell a pat- ented product or process. Offices of Research and Technology Applications are organizational units created under Public Law 96-480. The primary function of these offices is to disseminate information on federally owned or originated products, processes, and services linking the research and development resources of the federal laboratories, and the federal government as a whole, to state and local government and to the private sector. A patent is an agreement between the government and the inventor whereby, in exchange for the inventor’s complete disclosure of the invention, the government gives the inventor the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling the invention for a certain period of time.