Abstract
This week, the House Science, Space & Technology Committee, chaired by Rep. George E. Brown Jr. (D.-Calif.), launches an intense, yearlong look at whether the federal government's research system is working for the optimal benefit of U.S. citizens, society, and industry. Its Science Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Rick Boucher (D.-Va.), wffl bring in a group of industrial research chiefs for a hearing on how best to link federal research to their needs. Boucher says the study will consist of 12 or more hearings, and will produce a report about this time next This year, the process won't go beyond this week's hearing on knowledge transfer to industry. But Boucher says he will move full tilt when Congress convenes next year. Such large-scale overviews of federal science are not new. The first such assessment was made in 1963 by a special House committee headed by Carl Elliott of Alabama. The latest was an ambitious four-year-long ...
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