文档介绍：2014年理工类职称英语A级考试全真模拟题一(4)
2014年职称英语考试时间为2014年3月29日,考生们在备考的过程中切记要结合模拟题来练习,使自己的复习更加有效。
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第一篇
Technology Transfer in Germany
When es to translating basic research into industrial ess, few nations can matchGermany. Since the 1940s, the nation's vast industrial base has been fed with a constant streamof new ideas and expertise from science. And though German prosperity (繁荣) has faltered(衰退) over the past decade because of the huge cost of unifying east and west as well as theglobal economic decline, it still has an enviable record for turning ideas into profit.
Much of the reason for that ess is the Fraunhofer Society, work of researchinstitutes that exists solely to solve industrial problems and create sought-after technologies. Buttoday the Fraunhofer institutes petition. Universities are taking an ever larger role intechnology transfer, and technology parks are springing up all over, These efforts are plemented by the federal programmes for pumping money into start-panies.
Such a strategy may sound like a recipe for economic ess, but it is not without itscritics. These people worry that favouring applied research will mean neglecting basic science,eventually starving industry of fresh ideas. If every scientist starts thinking like an entrepreneur(企业家), the argument goes, the