Federally sponsored programs

The human genome project is a federal government-sponsored program to sequence all DNA in human chromosomes. 

Cost/Benefit Studies. Two studies by Mathematica, Inc., are among the current best efforts to assess programs intended to create or facilitate the secondary application of Federally-sponsored R D in the civilian economy (If , 17). The two studies are quite clearly operational assessments in that they develop data on the costs and benefits of secondary applications of NASA technology, but do not address the question of the value of alternative government roles or strategies for achieving the same objective. 

This project was sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the funding program Frameworks for Innovation towards Sustainability (RIW) (project number 07RIW) - the authors assume sole responsibility for the contents of this report. 

The organizing committee of the conference included W. M. Meier, general chairman J. B. Uytterhoeven, program chairman H. Sticher, P. K. Maher, and R. Peest. Mr. Peest resigned from the committee for professional reasons and was replaced by H. Berti. A committee of advisors assisted the program chairman and was composed of R. M. Barrer, V. Bos cek, D. W. Breck, L. Moscou, C. Naccache, L. V. C. Rees, J. V. Smith, P. B. Venuto, H. Villiger, and S. P. Zhdanov. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and the Swiss Chemical Society sponsored... 

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