National Laboratories: Are Their R&D Activities Related to Commercial Product Development?

Abstract

You asked us to consider how the national laboratories of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) can best be focused to help solve the problems our nation faces during the current decade. As a beginning, we have developed an inventory of the human and capital resources housed in the national laboratories that wIll provide baseline data for future reports on a number of DOE laboratory policy issues. This report addresses the Committee's interest in the current balance of the research effort in the 10 laboratories' research programs. It examines the extent to which the national laboratories are engaged now in basic and applied research or in research related to commercial product development.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 25, 1994
Accession Number
ADA291399

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  • United States Government Accountability Office

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  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Accounting
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  • Ecology
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  • Materials Science
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Nuclear Materials
  • Nuclear Reactors
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Particle Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Renewable Energy
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