Industry-Laboratory Partnerships A Review of the Sandia Science and Technology Park Initiative (1999) / Chapter Skim
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The laboratory is seeking an environment able to attract and retain capable staff at a time when the nuclear weapons mission is perhaps less compelling to young researchers than it once was. Secondly, Sandia's management believes that to successfully execute laboratory missions, they increasingly need to rely on "spin-on," that is, to acquire commercial technologies developed outside the laboratory.
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Wessner continued, it is also important to recognize that there are likely to be some indirect costs to taxpayers involved in using a federal lab and federally contracted employees to develop the project. These costs would have to be weighed against what appear to be multiple potential benefits, including the not inconsiderable benefit of maintaining the technological edge of Sandia's facilities and staff.
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Wessner observed that the STEP Board's project on "Government-Industry Partnerships for the Development of New Technologies" hopes to look at the experience of foreign S&T parks and at manageable criteria for allowing foreign-owned companies to participate in federally funded research programs. Given the growing importance of collaborative research conducted over the Internet, Dr.
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