The New Government Laboratories

Governance, Government, and the Search for New Provider Models

A central problem in designing effective models of provider governance in health systems has been to ensure an appropriate balance between the concerns of public sector and/or government decision-makers, on the one hand, and of non-governmental health services actors in civil society and private life, on the other. In tax-funded European health systems up to the 1980s, the state and other publi...

The New Face of Government

E-government has emerged not merely as a specialization in public administration, but as a transformative force affecting all levels and functions of government. This volume, written by a mix of practitioners and researchers, provides an overview of the management challenges and issues involved in seeking a new form of governance — digital government. An initial introductory section presents th...

Creating a New Government

•republic •Articles of Confederation •Northwest Ordinance of 1787 •Shays’s Rebellion •James Madison •federalism •checks and balances •ratification •Federalists •Antifederalists •Bill of Rights American leaders created the Constitution as a blueprint of government for the United States. More than 200 years after its creation, the Constitution remains the nation’s guiding document for a working g...

Introducing New Laboratory-Developed Molecular Methods in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratories

Technology transfer from government R&D laboratories in the United States and Japan

Technology transfer is diflcult, for several reasons. Here we discuss various strategies for resolving their diflculties, especially these strategies that facilitate technology transfer porn national R&D laboratories to private enterprises. W e focus on CRADAs in the United States and R&D consort ia in Japan: Clarr&ng the advantages and faults of both for technology transfer. The technology tra...