RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CAPABILITIES Research and development
activities must be related to the manpower and institutional resources available
for conducting them. This requires that a program for investment in research and
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During the past decade, foreign participation in U.S. research and development--through acquisition of R&D-intensive businesses, links with universities, and other arrangements--has expanded rapidly. This emergence of foreign influence has drawn a mixed response--some regard the trend as a positive corollary to the expanding involvement of U.S.-owned companies in national markets abroad. Others consider it a net liability for Americans that often benefits foreign companies and their home economies at U.S. expense. There exists a large gap in expert and public understanding of the drivers, nature, and consequences of foreign participation in the nation's technology enterprise. This volume seeks to close this gap and reviews The nature of R&D activities and how they contribute to economic development. The causes, scope, and nature of foreign involvement in U.S.-based R&D activity and the associated costs, risks, benefits, and opportunities of this trend. The merits and liabilities of policies to regulate foreign R&D participation.
Committee on Foreign Participation in U.S. Research and Development, National
Academy of Engineering Proctor P. Reid, Alan Schriesheim. http://www.nap.edu/
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The National Academies' National Research Council undertook this study in response to a request from the Under Secretary of Energy to provide strategic advice on how the Department of Energy could improve its Environmental Quality R&D portfolio. The committee recommends that DOE develop strategic goals and objectives for its EQ business line that explicitly incorporate a more comprehensive, long-term view of its EQ responsibilities. For example, these goals and objectives should emphasize long-term stewardship and the importance of limiting contamination and materials management problems, including the generation of wastes and contaminated media, in ongoing and future DOE operations.
Committee on Building a Long-Term Environmental Quality Research and
Development Program in the Department of Energy, Board on Radioactive Waste
Management, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Computer science
is special among the sciences in that technological developments have tended to
govern the overall direction of the field. Two technological achievements — the ...
