Table of Contents

1. The Sixteen Thousand: Policy Analysis, Institutional Design, and the National Innovation System 2. The Evolution of the National innovation System 3, A Snapshot of U.S. R&D Laboratories in the National innovation System: Structure Output and Design 4. Re-Thinking the U.S. National Innovation system: The Environtmental Context Taxonomy 5. Policy Implications of Laboratories' Environmental Context 6. Federal Laboratories in the National Innovation System 7. Technology Transfer and Commercial Impacts of Federal Laboratories 8. Strategic Policy-Making for the National Innovation System Appendix I: the National comparative R&D Laboratory Project Overview Appendix II: NCRDP Bibliography and Abstracts

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A unique survey of the past, present, and future roles of the diverse U.S. research and development laboratories, offering policy makers and scientists a blueprint for the best utilization of these facilities.

About the Author

Michael Crow is vice provost of Columbia University and professor of science and technology policy. Barry Bozeman is director of the School of Public Policy and professor of public policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Reviews

There are more than 16,000 R&D labs in the U.S. today, including 12,000 in private industry. Yet until this book became available, there existed no systematic examination that fully revealed the remarkable institutional diversity that supported research in this country. In this book, American R&D labs have finally found their Linnaeus.