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The Advanced Materials and Processing Program and the Restructuring of Materials Science and Technology in the United States From Research to Manufacturing (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Session III: Integration of Science, Engineering, and Societal Needs in Materials
Pages 10-13

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... Our global competitors have demonstrated all too convincingly that economic success increasingly requires a more purposeful, focused national R&D strategy. We are beginning to understand that the spontaneous creation of national wealth from the fruits of scientific inquiry and technological exploration is simply too slow and inefficient a process in to(lay's fast-pacecl, ruthlessly competitive global economy.
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From page 11...
... the key functions government needs to serve with a technology policy. He then discussed picking winners and picking the appropriate policy instruments for supporting winners.
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From page 12...
... technology policy should be that the United States run a manufactured goods trade surplus by the year 2000. If the nation were to accept this goal, it would focus on those technology sectors involves} in international trade that produce both the largest ~iollar volume ant} the highest profits.
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... Most technology that's developed inside companies never gets transferred into production and used, and it's even harder from the outside. Unless it's figured out in advance how technology transfer will happen, it won't happen, and in fact mostly it doesn't happen.
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  • climate setting
  • economic success

  • picking winners
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  • technology corporation
  • copyright protection
  • laboratory participants
  • federally supported

  • gain monopoly
  • target major
  • maximum extent
  • critical requirements
  • commercial exploitation

  • gain effective
  • fundamental scientific
  • building bridges
  • global economy
  • filling implies

  • develop technology
  • technology goals
  • providing appropriately
  • economic competitiveness
  • national technology


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