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C. Criteria of "Eljgibilit.v " 



In thinking of eligible candidates for cooperation, 

 ths relative criterion is not where a subject falls on the basic 

 research to technology spectrum, but rather what are the 

 subjects for which governments are providing public funds. 

 Presunably, where only private sector industrial support is 

 involved, it is and should be up to industry v/hether cooperative 

 R&D is justified. There are, of course, many examples of such 

 cooperation. (Even here, there may be occasions when governments 

 want to stimulate or ease the way to industrial cooperation, 

 -but these are special cases that need not be of concern here). 



Even when public funds are involved, decisions 

 about cooperation in some cases may be more appropriately 

 left to industry, especially if a subject is largely at the 

 commercial .Exploitation stage. 



But, in all other areas of public funding. of R&D, it is 

 reasonable for governments to ask whether programmes are or should 

 candidates for greater international collaboration. Criteria 

 for such a decision, some of which are roughly the same as those 

 for government involvement in the first place, would include: 



1. Does the subject have a particularly long 

 time frame? 



2. Does it involve large investment costs? 



3. Will it involve large and perhaps .unique 

 facilities for demonstration or pilot plants? 



h. Is it stretching the state of the art? 



