cleary@husc9.harvard.edu (Kenneth Cleary) (07/31/90)
Unfortunately, the wheels did not start spinning in my head fast enough :-) I knew I should have saved that article where someone mentioned something about a branch of the government granting or loaning funds for development or research of new technical products... It was in the context of private ownership of results of Commerce Department funded development(?) Is this strictly aimed at commercial entities, or are academics also eligible? Could someone repost or E-Mail more info? Have any netters out there had anything to do with these sorts of arrangements? While the topic is up, what about any sorts of gov. (or other) funding of applied research, specifically in the field of computer research? At a presentation some months ago Eric Bloch (sp?) was addressing concerns of researchers in the basic sciences about funding. He said something to the effect that funding of engineering & technical sciences had increased more so than basic sciences. (Health sciences also doing better than basic sciences) What I want to know is how to access all these wonderful funds :-) If the readers of this group actually do more than just *POST* about computer development :-) how do they go about procuring funds? While this topic might seem more appropriate for sci.research, perhaps that group is more oriented towards basic sci. which may have a different experience in dealing with the FED's.(?)