Abstract
When the name John Dingell is heard in science and technology land, bodies quake, tempers flare, and the question most heard is: Who's he after now? Dingell is a Democratic Representative from Michigan who, as chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, has made sport in recent years of sniffing out mal- and misfeasance in the technical world, where, he believes, behavior should be pristine. This time Dingell isn't after anybody in particular but is instead tackling one of the most studied science policy issues: Why federal labs, a $21 billion R&D enterprise, aren't doing a better job of transferring their technologies to an industry beset by global competitiveness problems. A Congressional Research Service report commissioned by Dingell concludes what everyone familiar with the subject has always known—technology transfer is successful between federal laboratories and industry in Japan and Germany because their laboratories are specifically set up to do that. The U.S. federal labs—other ...
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