Impact of Science and Technology on Regional Economic Development An Assessment of National Policies Regarding Research and Development in the Context of Regional Economic Development (1969) / Chapter Skim
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R&D Activities Relevant to Regional Economic Development—Institutional Relationships
R&D Activities Relevant to Regional Economic Development—Institutional Relationships
Pages 43-49
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Industrial R&D laboratories constitute by far the largest single contributor of such efforts, although important programs committed to such goals are also located in each of the other major categories of R&D institutions: government laboratories, not-for-profit corporations, and universities. Industry is the largest performer of federally sponsored as well as internally funded R&D.
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Such laboratories as the Batelle Memorial Institute and the Stanford Research Institute operate as job shops for a very wide variety of sponsors; they work with clients from all sectors of the economy, from all parts of the country and many foreign nations. It is interesting to note that, although a number of such not-for-profit laboratories were established with a special view to the economic development of their local regions, the dynamics of their support -- i.e., the marketing of R&D competence in a more or less open economy -- has in almost all cases broadened into a functional relationship with sponsors on a national basis.
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Second, there is a need for providing quality institutions of higher education that are accessible to a larger fraction of the population. In addition, there is a challenge to provide continuing education, especially for those already displaced by technological innovation, and more generally for all elements of the professional
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In addition, the needs for more individualized education for a larger fraction of our population over a greater portion of the human life-span call for major innovation and amplification to cope with unprecedented needs. Whereas many service functions such as banking, insurance, communication, and travel have been radically affected by the incorporation of modern technology, educational institutions have, for the most part, been slow to incorporate change, in the form of either technological, administrative, or instructional modifications.
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The needs in the areas of education and public health constitute urgent reasons and significant opportunities for the development of distributed national programs of research and development in these fields. The Improved Utilization of Natural Resources -- Enhancement of the Quality of the Physical Environment Research and development have been among the principal forces in developing new approaches to the exploitation, replenishment, and utilization of natural resources.
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The Delineation of Regional Problems and the Development of Plans for Their Solution Among the significant technological innovations since World War II has been the development of systems analysis and systems approaches to complex problems. They were accompanied and stimulated by the establishment of institutions typified by the RAND Corporation and the Institute for Defense Analyses.
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As contrasted with the situation typified by the Department of Defense sponsoring a systems analysis of weapons cost-effectiveness, the usual regional problem does not have a specified agency charged with the task of delineating or solving the problem. Indeed, in most cases, the region is not identified with a specified political unit or governmental body.
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