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'''FIGURE 1. Organization of scientific and technical research (S)'''

many advisory councils which have been established throughout the research and development sector at the management level.

The regime is continuing its efforts to align research and development more closely with economic requirements. In the mid-1960's the role of governmental ministries in research and development was strengthened when various "people-owned enterprises" (VEB's) were placed under appropriate ministries. The VEB's operate numerous industrial research and development laboratories and are grouped by type of industry into associations of people-owned enterprises (VVB's). The VVB's maintain about 100 industrial research institutes, constituting about 10% of the country's industrial research, development, design, and construction installations. In every industrial concern there is a new technology committee, the tasks of which are to monitor production rates, promote research and development activities, and arrange for interchange of technical information. All scientific workers and technicians within the industrial enterprises are required to cooperate with the committee, which in turn cooperates with the research centers of the VVB's. The main research organization is the AW. Formerly the German Academy of Sciences (DAW), it was renamed in October 1972; the statute and all rights and duties of the academy remained unchanged. The AW has a number of permanent advisory commissions under its presidium and operates almost 100 research installations grouped under six sections. The institutes are organized into research associations, such as the Research Association of the Natural-Scientific, Technological, and Medical Institutes, which establish priority for AW's research and assign to appropriate institutes the research projects placed with AW by other governmental agencies on a contractual basis. These associations work closely with the FR. The

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