A toolbox for accessing federal laboratory innovations and financing the acquisition of new technologies with corporate equity, this book is also a guide to understanding the expertise of specific government laboratories. Entrepreneurs can rapidly accelerate the growth of their companies and become more competitive by acquiring federal laboratory innovations. This book is an indispensable resource for those who want access to the latest breakthrough technologies, most of which can be traced to universities and federally funded laboratories. These taxpayer-funded idea factories can and should be leveraged by companies for competitive advantage. The authors describe how the private sector can engage these labs as long-term strategic partners, as well as development partners for the ongoing, cost-effective improvement of new technologies.
Jargon-free and succinct, this guide also explains how to benefit from knowledge of the current technology-transfer landscape in order to maximize this special private-public partnership. No country can equal the United States in research and development assets. But the federal government is not always as successful as it could be in using its authority to encourage such partnerships. It is therefore up to the private sector―entrepreneurs as well as established companies seeking new growth outlets-exploit the information presented here. Included is a directory of federal laboratories with a synopsis of their expertise and contact information, along with copies of the breakthrough technology-transfer legislation that has made technology transfer possible.

Technology Transfer for Entrepreneurs: A Guide to Commercializing Federal Laboratory Innovations

Business & Money

Gross, Clifford M.

Allen,Joseph P

Economics

Praeger

Seventy deeply troubled teenagers spend weeks, months, even years on a locked psychiatric ward. They’re not just failing in school, not just using drugs. They are out of control—violent or suicidal, in trouble with the law, unpredictable, and dangerous. Their futures are at risk. 
 Twenty years later, most of them still struggle. But astonishingly, a handful are thriving. They’re off drugs and on the right side of the law. They’ve finished school and hold jobs that matter to them. They have close friends and are responsible, loving parents. 
 What happened? How did some kids stumble out of the woods while others remain lost? Could their strikingly different futures have been predicted back during their teenage struggles? The kids provide the answers in a series of interviews that began during their hospitalizations and ended years later. Even in the early days, the resilient kids had a grasp of how they contributed to their own troubles. They tried to make sense of their experience and they groped toward an understanding of other people’s inner lives. 
 In their own impatient voices, Out of the Woods portrays edgy teenagers developing into thoughtful, responsible adults. Listening in on interviews through the years, narratives that are often poignant, sometimes dramatic, frequently funny, we hear the kids growing into more composed—yet always recognizable—versions of their tough and feisty selves.

Out of the Woods: Tales of Resilient Teens (Adolescent Lives, 4)

Golden, Eve

Hauser, Stuart T.

Reference

Harvard University Press

Entering Space An Astronaut's Odyssey

Science & Math

Astronomy & Space Science

Black Cat.

This is Stewart, Tabori and Chang Publisher's 1984 edition printed and bound in Japan.  On November 11, 1982, astronaut Joseph P. Allen made his first journey into space as a new crew member of the fifth flight of the shuttle orbiter Columbia. In this book, Allen shares his firsthand insights into the incomparable experience of traveling in space and brings the human dimension of the space program in focus.  The book includes 200 dramatic color photographs taken by the astronauts.  Entering Space conveys the irresistible lure of space flight.

Entering Space: Astronaut's Odyssey

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Describes what is is like traveling and working in the space shuttle and looks at highlights of the space exploration program

Entering Space: An Astronaut's Odyssey

Stewart, Tabori and Chang

Odisea de un astronauta (Spanish Edition)

MARTIN, Russell

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Editorial Reverté

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