Federal Policies to Foster Innovation and Improvement in Constructed Facilities Summary of a Symposium (1996) / Chapter Skim
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The workshop offered the opportunity to examine technology, government roles, and management approaches as they relate to leveraging federal investment to promote innovation. Altogether, 59 individuals participated.
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The government should ensure that agencies maintain or acquire technical experts to evaluate the potential risks. From the discussions on leveraging capital investments and malting innovation part of the process, the keynote address by Bob Stone, where he tattled about freedom, observation, and encouragement, there is a challenge for all the federal agencies to adhere to and respond to.
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Perhaps we also should try to have the federal government take a more proactive look at the issue of performance-based specifications. If performance-based specifications were introduced, industry would have to respond, probably with more R&D themselves, because they would be held accountable.
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by Vice President Albert Gore in March 1993. He led a team of mostly federal employees in preparing a report to the President on reinventing the federal government.
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