Science and Technology Centers Principles and Guidelines (1987) / Chapter Skim
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I. Introduction
I. Introduction
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In looking to the future, however, many knowledgeable observers have raised serious concerns about our ability to sustain a high rate of innovation and to transfer new knowledge rapidly to industrial and social needs. The National Science Foundation has a crucial role to play in addressing these concerns.
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The lesson of these and other examples is that the United States must continue to support a wide variety of research activities -- short and long term, basic and applied -- organized in the many different ways that are appropriate to the various research problems and opportunities. The principal rationale for the NSF Science and Technology Centers is to ensure continued preeminence in science and an adequate base of trained scientists -- two ingredients essential to our success in economic competition.
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They usually lack an administrative structure, an educational mission independent of university departments, and the ability to fund promising new projects; but they have many of the virtues of single investigator projects and should be treated as favorably. The term "center" implies a larger scale activity with a formal management and organizational structure.
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