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Comparison Study with Other Federal Agency Laboratories
Pages 25-30

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From page 25...
... Intellectual property and sensitive but unclassified information were seen as issues in the NIST partnership activities with universities; not mentioned were issues of "color-of-money or pot-of-money" dilemmas, accounting and legal transactional difficulties, prohibitions on foreign student involvement, and the need for mission clarification to the public and Congress -- issues that dominated the discussion of many DOE endeavors (see Appendix E)
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From page 26...
... researchers of foreign origin and has a dedicated program, "Windows on Science," to sponsor visits of leading foreign researchers to DOD laboratories in order to capture the latest technological developments and research concepts from abroad. Conspicuously present in Harwell's presentation were a number of DOD collaborative programs with universities that also had substantial industry contributions.
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From page 27...
... The NIST presentation made no such reference or distinctions, implicitly suggesting that visibility and recognition were not issues for NIST researchers and that, given equal contributions, they enjoyed equal access to the public stage. The DOD presentation, in yet a third variant, suggested that university researchers would inevitably dominate the intellectual forefront and world scientific stage and that the role of the mission-oriented laboratory researcher was to translate some of these advances into technology.
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From page 28...
... Grant instruments, the funding mechanism most familiar to university faculty funded by DOE, is not available to DOE laboratory researchers: DOE regulations prohibit the use of its own grant mechanism to fund work at the national laboratories. However, DOE national laboratory researchers are allowed to respond to grant solicitations from NIH, thanks to a 1998 MOU between DOE and NIH that authorizes DOE laboratory contractors to be the institutional entity submitting the NIH grant application.
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From page 29...
... The presentations from other agencies' point of view also revealed some comparative truths about DOE laboratories and their researchers: · DOE researchers view themselves as competitive with, and competitive for, the same levels of intellectual achievement and global prestige as university professors. · DOE researchers view their research as an unusual blend of cutting-edge basic science and engineering and equipment-intensive experimentation (often at large scale)
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