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> Contact: M. Swinney
> (317) 262-5022
>>> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
>> THE WORLD OR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER COMES TO ATLANTA
>> Would you like to learn how technology is transferred in
> Great Britain, Finland, Spain and Japan? Or Arkansas, Michigan
> and South Carolina? Do you need information about the federal
> laboratories and NASA's technology transfer network? Are you
> interested in legal concerns, price and packaging, assistance
> programs and environmental issues? What about the spiritual
> aspects of technology transfer? What about what works?
>> The whole spectrum of technology transfer--from theory to
> practice and around the world--will be explored at the Technology
> Transfer Society's 17th annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia,
> June 24-26, 1992.
>> Some 50 speakers from industry, federal labs, universities,
> research organizations and more than a half dozen countries will
> speak on moving technological developments from the laboratory to
> the loading dock.
>> John Mannix, NASA's Assistant Administrator for Commercial
> Programs, will deliver the opening address at lunch on June 24.
> The following day's luncheon speaker will be the Society's Thomas
> Jefferson Award winner, an internationally known expert in
> technology transfer.
>> Mike Stevenson, Associate Director for Energy and
> Environment, Los Alamos National Lab, will provide the address
> for the awards dinner on the evening of June 24th.
>> The theme for this year's conference is "Internationalizing
> Technology Transfer". The meeting will have three main tracks:
> Contemporary Technology Transfer, Proven Technology Transfer, and
> Emerging Technology Transfer. Each track will accommodate up to
> six sessions and each session will have three presentations.
> Nations participating are Belgium, Canada, China, Finland, Italy,
> Mexico, Switzerland, Great Britain, and the United States.
>> Technology transfer is the increasingly important science of
> effectively joining private-sector needs with the technology
> developed at government or university laboratories. Effective
> technology transfer is essential to ensure that government
> research paid for by the taxpayer ultimately results in enhanced
> economic development and industrial competitiveness. A
> technologically capable industrial base will improve product
> quality and lifestyles of consumers.
>> The Technology Transfer Society, headquartered in
> Indianapolis, Indiana, was formed in 1975 by representatives from
> government, industry, and academia who saw the need for an
> organization to be catalyst in moving technology to its ultimate
> application.
>> For more information on attending the conference, call the
> Technology Transfer Society's main office at (317) 262-5022 or
> the Atlanta host organization, Georgia Tech's Economic
> Development Laboratory, at (404) 894-3830.
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Rob Harper / E-mail: harper at convex.csc.fi
Finnish State Computer Centre / Molbio/software: harper at nic.funet.fi
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