What are some specific major and minor bureaucracies that exemplify red tape?
VII. Dealing with the bureaucracy Government Laboratories are run on the basis of rules known as Government Regulations. Further, these regulations are evidently written under the assumption that government employees are of questionable character and cannot be trusted. Therefore, one finds that nearly all the regulations spell out precise activities which are prohibited. Since the number of ways that one could imagine to cheat the government are essentially without limit, so are the regulations. Therefore, it makes no sense to set out to study “the regulations”. Rather, when one conceives of a plan to follow in order to accomplish Technology Transfer (TT), it makes sense only to try to determine whether there is a specific regulation forbidding such action or any part thereof. Also, keep in mind that (1) it is easier to apologize than to obtain permission; and (2) there are many ways to accomplish any given goal. In most government agencies, there are many layers of authority that are
