Building the 21st Century U.S.-China Cooperation on Science, Technology, and Innovation (2011) / Chapter Skim
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LESSONS LEARNED AND NEXT STEPS
LESSONS LEARNED AND NEXT STEPS
Pages 119-124
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Barker outlined for medical research. "Energy research now is driven more by national priorities, both for the development of new options for traditional fossil and nuclear energy and for the development and commercialization of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies," she said.
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government focuses on everything from very basic research in materials and separation science to very large-scale, public-private investments for deployment of some of these novel technologies." Of course, the market ultimately will determine which energy technologies succeed, Dr. Newark noted.
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"That is where government steps in, to allow every citizen in the U.S. to have access to this critical infrastructure." Wang Xue, deputy head of the Chengdu High-Tech Zone, asked about America's health care reform.
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She said she favors the concept of formulary, in which health care providers specify what they will pay for prescriptions in order to control costs. It may be difficult for the United States to adopt such an approach to public health care in "our free-market system," she said, although the formulary approach is starting to be used in health care for the elderly.
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"It is a much more complex mosaic than that." Michael Borrus concluded the session by noting that he was struck at how much China and the United States have in common, "whether it be reducing dependence on fossil fuels or the fact we face rising cancer rates." Based on the three decades of cooperation in health care between the two countries, Mr. Borrus suggested three principles on what makes collaboration successful.
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124 BUILDING THE 21ST CENTURY: U.S.-CHINA COOPERATION to try some things together, demonstrate mutual gain, and then turn those smaller-scale collaborations into larger collaborations."
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