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Download full textUS Congress, 2011
The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-358) was put in place to invest in innovation through research and development, to improve the competitiveness of the United States, and for other purposes. The table of contents for this Act is as follows: (1) Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents; (2) Sec. 2. Definitions; and (3)…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Computation, Research and Development, Innovation
Ols, John M., Jr. – 1991
Under current federal copyright law (17 U.S.C. 105), federal agencies cannot copyright and license their computer software. Officials at the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Institutes of Health state that a significant…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Software Development, Copyrights, Federal Legislation
Peer reviewedFigueiredo, Nice – Information Development, 1987
Describes the events that led to the establishment of the national policy for informatics in Brazil, which restricts foreign involvement in that nation's computer industry. The governing agencies are described, controversies and debates surrounding the policy are summarized, and the reaction of the American government is discussed. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Federal Regulation, Foreign Countries, International Trade
Andewelt, Roger B. – 1987
The recent increased awareness of the importance to our economy of innovation and the development of new technologies has been coupled with the crafting of new legislation to increase the level of intellectual property protection available to innovators. Because one of the key methods of encouraging the efficient use of intellectual property is…
Descriptors: Certification, Competition, Federal Legislation, Innovation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Science and Technology. – 1986
The need to ensure that the United States would become more economically competitive and would effectively translate scientific leadership into technological innovations is addressed in this report of a 3-day series of hearings on strategies for exploiting American inventiveness in the world marketplace. Testimonies are offered from…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Research, Hearings, Innovation
Peer reviewedKnowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 1992
These excerpts from "Education 2005: The Role of Research and Development in an Overwhelming Campaign for Education in America" describe the rationale for the report's full recommendations. They include the text and discussion of the particular recommendation for the creation of a research, development, and dissemination delivery system…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Research
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1984
This is a congressional hearing on the Training Technology Transfer Act of 1984, which would establish a mechanism for transferring the Federal Government's investment in computer programming for training systems to those organizations and groups that can use such technology in training the civilian work force. Focus is on refining this bill,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Innovation
