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Energy has a new central access point connecting investors, innovators to national labs

FedScoop: The U.S. Department of Energy has launched a new web portal for connecting industry investors and innovators with the work of the agency’s many and varied national labs.

The Laboratory Partnering Service (LPS) basically streamlines and combines what used to be a bunch of disparately held information. It is a project of DOE’s Office of Technology Transfer that gives interested users “direct access to the vast array of expertise, research, and capabilities” at the agency’s 17 labs. It also acts as a single portal where innovators or investors can inquire about technology transfer, using the LPS to send questions to each lab’s tech transfer office.

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