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Appendix A: National Research Council, Trends in Federal Support of Research and Graduate Education, Key Findings
Appendix A: National Research Council, Trends in Federal Support of Research and Graduate Education, Key Findings
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Although federal research funding began to increase after 1997, the new composition of federal support remained relatively unchanged. In 1999, the life sciences had 46 percent of federal funding for research, compared with 40 percent in 1993.
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The patterns in federal funding of basic research and research performed at universities are similar to that for overall funding of research but somewhat more favorable, suggesting that by the late 1990s agencies were tending to protect basic and university research relative to applied research and other performers. Although federal funding of research assistant positions through research grants and contracts is but one factor among many in determining the number of Ph.D.'s produced in a field, graduate enrollments and Ph.D.
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