Jerry Brown: “Mr. Speaker, over the last 20 years we have seen a complete change in…”

On the recordJuly 14, 1998

Mr. Speaker, over the last 20 years we have seen a complete change in attitude regarding technology transfer, and it has been a change for the better. In 1979 and in 1980, the House Committee on Science and Technology, working with some far-thinking individuals in the Carter administration, the university community and the private sector, came up with a holistic method of thinking about innovation in this country and the legislation necessary to back it up. I am proud to have been a part of the bipartisan group of legislators who guided these bills, the Bayh-Dole Act and the Stevenson-Wydler Act, to enactment and who later worked with the Reagan administration to broaden their scope by extending the Bayh-Dole Act to government-owned, contractor-operated laboratories and by adding the concept of cooperative research and development agreements to the Stevenson-Wydler Act.

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Jerry Brown

California

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Discussing the evolution of technology transfer legislation and his role in its development.

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Jerry Brown: “Mr. Speaker, over the last 20 years we have seen a complete change in attitude regarding technology transfer, and it has…”

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