Policy AdriftLost at the Frontier
Policy Adrift
Deborah Shapley/Rustum Roy
For all their spectacular success in capturing Nobel prizes over the last 40 years, U.S. scientists today face deep, underlying problems with the structure and values of their government, universities, and industry are troubled and uncertain. U.S. science policy is based on the primacy of funding of basic research and neglects key problems in applied science, engineering, and technology. Professionally, scientists show little concern about the overall needs of industry and the poor state of U.S. science education.
Without reforms, the U.S. technology effort may continue to falter. To spark the debate, the authors put forward a forceful critique of U.S. science policy and invite several leading scientists to give their own views in guest commentaries. The issues raised directly affect bench scientists, science teachers, research administrators, government and industrial executives, and policy-makers across the nation.
Contents:
U.S. Science Adrift • The Institutional Factor • Industrial Research Adrift • The Human Factor • New International Factors • Science and Society: The New Contract • Appendix: Responses from: W.O. Baker, George E. Brown, Jr. (D-Calif.), Pat Choate, Harry C. Gatos, Walter A. Hahn, James R. Killian, Jr., Edwin H. Land, F. James Rutherford, and Eric A. Walker
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