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Pages 37-42

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... The committee encourages industry and academia to take advantage of the tremendous capabilities of the national laboratories, especially for interdisciplinary research, to expand the limits of science and technologies in the national interest. This will require that issues related to intellectual property be resolved.
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... The Office of Inclustrial Technologies should support precompetitive, high-risk, innovative research that has a high potential payoffs of addressing targeted industry needs. COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY, AND DATA MANAGEMENT High-throughput computational screening has advanced catalytic science, but this technology has not been widely used for the rapid synthesis of a multicomponent catalysts.
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... The committee estimates that approximately $1 billion is spent annually on catalysis research, at least 90 percent of which is geared toward short-term applied research, process and product development, environmental issues, and technical supports. According to the National Science Foundation, of the $158 billion allocated for industrial research in 1997, 6.6 percent was spent on exploratory, basic research, 20 percent was spent on applied research, and 73 percent was spent on development (NSF, 19974.
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... Currently, all proposals are reviewed by committees with members drawn from academia and national laboratory staff, with some level of participation by industry. In addition, the review process is inefficient.
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... , high-performance computing, reactor hydrodynamics, polymerization catalysis (Sandia National Laboratories) , high-performance computing, supercritical fluids, fuel cells, biocatalysis (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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... The Office of industrial Technologies should encourage and facilitate the formation of"virtual catalyst research centers" based on the unique capabilities of the national laboratories.
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