Setting Priorities for Large Research Facility Projects Supported by the National Science Foundation (2004) / Chapter Skim
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3 Concerns About National Science Foundation's Current Priority-Setting Process
3 Concerns About National Science Foundation's Current Priority-Setting Process
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Third, there is a lack of funding for disciplines to conduct ideageneration and, once ideas have some level of approval, there is a lack of funding for conceptual development, planning, engineering, and design-information needed to judge adequately whether a project is ready for full funding. Those concerns have eroded confidence among policy makers and the research community that large research facility projects are being ranked on the basis of their potential returns to science, technology, and society.
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In response to the first concern, in its 2003 report Science and Engineering Infrastructure for the 21st Century: The Role of the National Science Foundation, the NSB examined the status of the nation's science and engineering infrastructure and concluded that there is an urgent need to increase Federal investments to provide access for scientists and engineers to the latest and best S&E infrastructure, as well as to update infrastructure currently in place. The NSB recommended that NSF "increase the share of the NSF budget devoted to S&E infrastructure," and one subject of emphasis was large facility projects.
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