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Although public InstlCuClons do not have a profit motive and should not adopt 

 one, 1 see a reasonable mixture of short term and long term rewards for 

 scientists as holding the best promise for short- and long-term productivity 

 of public sector scientists. 



The productivity of public agricultural research may be Increased by a 

 new business -Industry extension service. This could be patterned after the 

 agricultural extension service but have as its clientele small and intermediate 

 sized firms that are in the business of commercializing agricultural 

 technologies. The purpose of this B-I extension service would be to enhance 

 the rate of technology transfer from the pretechnology and applied scientific 

 research into useful technologies for agricultural producers. 



