Abstract

Background and Purpose

Questionnaire Development and Approach

Responsibility to Partner

Overwhelming Support for Research Partnerships

Partnership Benefits

Demand for Future Research Collaborations

Companies Rate ER Labs

Suggestions for Improvement

Greatest Single Benefit

Summary – What We Have Learned

Recommendations

Appendix A – Companies Participating in the Industry Partner Survey

Appendix B – ER-LTR Partner Survey Questionnaire

Acknowledgments

Disclaimer/Contact Information

Chris R. Kniel
Technology Transfer Department
Directorate
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720

October 1998

This work was supported by the Office of Science, formerly Office of Energy Research, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098