Carolina QuotesShortly after taking office in 1993, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore called for a shift in American technology policy toward an expansion of public investments in partnerships with private industry.
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L.M. Branscomb, J.H. Keller (1999) Investing in innovation: creating a research and innovation policy that works.
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- 1999
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