[labnetwork] Staff Consulting

[Bob Hamilton]

Re: the question of outside "consulting" using lab resources, I offer a 
broader reply:

As a public organization, the University of California NanoLab staff is 
encouraged to share ideas and offer advice on a collegial, not-for-fee 
basis. We consider it our duty and mission to pass on information free 
of charge. This includes unique discoveries we've made in our lab which 
may have commercial value.

Public universities are supported by tax dollars as well as corporate 
and private donations. Sharing our knowledge garners goodwill and offers 
benefit to both industry and society. The name of the organization the 
NanoLab umbrellas under is CITRIS, the Center for Information Technology 
Research in the Interest of Society, a University of California center 
funded through of efforts of California's Governor Grey Davis.

More broadly, there is a precedent at the University of California 
Berkeley Campus, set by professor and Nobel Prize winner Ernesto Orlando 
Lawrence. Lawrence invented the cyclotron, the first tool capable of 
making radionuclides thus opening up developments in all the branches of 
science. He set this precedent by sharing his accelerators with other 
researchers and encouraging shared-research facilities. His efforts were 
the cornerstones of our National Labs and upset the self-interest often 
practiced in scientific research prior to his days. One could say he was 
noble and Nobel'd.

On a pragmatic basis, the juggling of one's duties for an operation like 
the NanoLab leaves scant time for outside consulting.


Bob Hamilton


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Robert Hamilton
University of California at Berkeley
Marvell NanoLab
Equipment Eng. Mgr.
Room 520 Sutardja Dai Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1754
bob at eecs.berkeley.edu
Phone: 510-809-8600
Mobile: 510-325-7557
e-mail preferred


On 12/31/2013 7:26 AM, Weaver, John R wrote:
> I know that a number of facilities allow their staff to do outside 
> "consulting" or "processing" using lab equipment. If you have such a 
> program, could you tell me how it works? We do some of that, but it is 
> not an organized program and we would like to put a little more 
> structure to it.
> Thanks,
> John
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