Industry-Laboratory Partnerships A Review of the Sandia Science and Technology Park Initiative (1999) / Chapter Skim
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II. Introduction
II. Introduction
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The teraflops computer's memory capacity is also one thousand times greater than supercomputers of the 1980s. "Sandia and a Revolution in Engineering: A Fact Sheet," Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M., 1997.
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However, despite the immense changes brought about by the end of the cold war, the traditional mission of Sandia National Laboratories remains paramount. At least for the foreseeable future, the national laboratories will retain major responsibilities for the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile.
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with Sandia, to help the laboratory fulfill its mission while also drawing on the unique assets of the Albuquerque region. An undertaking of this scope is inherently complex, and in the case of a national laboratory such as Sandia, there are a number of significant policy issues to be addressed.29 To ensure a complete discussion of the full range of issues relevant to this initiative, the Sandia National Laboratories asked the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP)
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In focusing on the well known Texas and North Carolina cases, it was thought that their success would serve as useful models for the Sandia initiative.3i Notwithstanding the success of the parks described by Michael Luger and Jurgen Schmandt, Irwin Feller posed a number of challenging questions concerning the role of federal funds, opportunity costs, and the difficulty of measuring success in an enterprise with the long time horizons characteristic of a S&T park. The second panel, moderated by Thomas Mays, recently of the National Cancer Institute, addressed the key issue of technology transfer from the national laboratories to the private sector and the increasing need for the laboratories to have ready access to innovations generated through rapidly changing commercial technologies.
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Yet worthwhile research partnerships necessarily risk failure. At the other end of the spectrum, successful partnerships can be criticized because private sector firms may profit from the success.
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Linking the technological know-how of national laboratories to the commercial sector through a science and technology park represents an innovative approach to meeting these challenges. We hope this summary of the Sandia S&T park proposal contributes to a fuller appreciation of the policy issues raised by this initiative and to a better understanding of the assets and opportunities that the Sandia National Laboratories offer for the Albuquerque region and the nation.
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