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Appendix C: Excerpts from the National Competitiveness Technology Transfer Act of 1989
Pages 99-104

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From page 99...
... improved opportunities for cooperation research and development agreements between contractor-managers of certain Federal laboratories and the private sector in the United States, consistent with the program missions at those facilities, particularly the national security functions involved in atomic energy defense activities, would contribute to our national well-being; and (6) more effective cooperation between those laboratories and the private sector in the United States is required to provide speed and certainty in the technology transfer process.
From page 100...
... enhance collaboration between universities, the private sector, and Government-owned, contractor-operated laboratories in order to foster the development of technologies in areas of significant economic potential. Section 3133 Authority to Enter into Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (a)
From page 101...
... "(iii) An agency which has contracted with a non-Federal entity to operate a laboratory or laboratories shall develop and provide to such laboratory or laboratories one or more model cooperative research and development agreements for the purposes of standardizing practices and procedures, resolving common legal issues, and enabling review of cooperative research and development agreements to be carried out in a routine and prompt manner.
From page 102...
... "(B) The director, or in the case of a contractor-operated laboratory, the agency, for a period of up to 5 years after development of information that results from research and development activities conducted under this Act and that would be a trade secret or commercial or financial information that is privileged or confidential if the information had been obtained from a nonFederal party participating in a cooperative research and development agreement, may provide appropriate protections against the dissemination of such information, including exemption from subchapter II of chapter 5, United States Code"; and (8)
From page 103...
... , appropriate contract provisions that (A) establish technology transfer, including cooperative research and development agreements, as a mission for the laboratory under section 1 l~a)
From page 104...
... require the laboratory to widely disseminate information on opportunities to participate with the laboratory in technology transfer, including cooperative research and development agreements; and (F) provides for an accounting of all royalty or other income received under cooperative research and development agreements.


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