Open AccessDOE`s multiprogram laboratories: The structure of an internal market
Author(s) -
Steven D. Beggs
Publication year - 1996
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/541856
Subject(s) - legislation , competition (biology) , range (aeronautics) , frame (networking) , business , operations research , engineering , operations management , marketing , telecommunications , political science , law , ecology , biology , aerospace engineering
Individual Department of Energy offices make R and D program assignments to competing multiprogram laboratories that are concentrated consistently more or less than the assignments of other offices over their full range, from largest assignment to smallest. Defense-related offices ignore as R and D performers the laboratories they do not dominate, by extends even greater than would be predicted from giving the three weapons laboratories their largest assignments. Certain DOE offices cluster their lab assignments together; others tend to avoid one another. To frame new legislation with net benefits for this internal market, Congress must appreciate the role of interlab competition