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Mazie Hirono: “Perhaps one of the ways that we incentivize the private sector is, of course, to have the potential of technology…”

On the recordNovember 2, 2015
Perhaps one of the ways that we incentivize the private sector is, of course, to have the potential of technology transfer.
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Mazie Hirono
Democratic · Hawaii

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Suggesting technology transfer as an incentive for private sector R&D.

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