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Appendix A. Francis Via Presentation
Appendix A. Francis Via Presentation
Pages 16-25
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Current address: Francis A.Via, Manager, Catalysis Program, Chemical Process Technology Laboratory, GE Corporate Research and Development, CEB-423, P.O. Box 8, Schenectady NY 12301.
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Akzo Nobel is a net exporter of chemicals from the United States, and we are pleased to emphasize this point each time we negotiate a cooperative program with a national laboratory or government agency. Furthermore, relative to globalization of the chemical industry, Department of Commerce data show that one-halfofthe 1 million U.S.
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Risk, liability, and regulations are also influencing the type of research being pursued. As a result, industrial research in the chemical industry has taken a defensive posture.
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One of our ongoing projects illustrates the intellectual property issue. This collaboration involved several universities and national laboratories.The goal of this program is to eliminate or remove chromium from anti-corrosion coatings.
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Product development research often appears rather straightforward and a fertile area for intellectual property development. Since it is commonly perceived that this area is highly profitable, university researchers may fee!
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Many times, any early publication can alert competitors to a new fertile area of research. For a comparable internal research program, an initial lead can be protected from public disclosure for several years to expand the technology and to develop a strong; family of patents.
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The technical liaison monitors progress and provides guidance. Although formal review meetings are scheduled every six O O months, the technical liaison maintains relatively close contact by visiting the partner every 6-12 weeks and through more frequent conference cads when warranted.
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, are serving to turtner promote tnls trend. Joint ventures, mergers, and business affiances are not uncommon in the chemical industry.
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Without an exit plan, academic or national laboratory colleagues may become disappointed with the industrial partner. From the industrial point of view, another barrier to partnerships is the funding uncertainty and multi-year changes of direction that arise from the cumbersome budgeting process ofthe national laboratories.We must be able to develop a better way to work with the outstanding scientists and facilities at the national laboratories.
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During the project on coatings cited several times in this presentation, we needed to have access to one of the user facilities at a national laboratory. At the time, access was difficult, so our university partner gained entrance to a worid class facility at Lund, Sweden.
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