Technology Policy and Critical Technologies A Summary of Recent Reports (1991) / Chapter Skim
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'AREAS OF GROWING CONSENSUS'
'AREAS OF GROWING CONSENSUS'
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DECLINING U.S. TECHNOLOGY LEA DERSIDP Declining U .
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Progress along these lines is illustrated by the Bush technology policy statement which explicitly accepts a federal responsibility to work with industry in the development of generic, precompetitive technologies . Also, compared to previous cycles of the technology policy debate, the industry reports give less sense that industry is asking government for special favors and more sense that industry is accepting shared responsibility.
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The similarity between lists of critical technologies has been widely noted. The report of the National Critical Technologies Panel, for example, reviews earlier critical technologies reports and notes the extensive overlap among the lists .
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As noted in the Carnegie Commission reports, in many fields technological leadership has shifted from the military to the commercial sector. This has raised concern, re flected in the DOD critical technology plans, that the declining competi tiveness of U .
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The DOD's Critical Technologies Plan is viewed by some as the first step toward a broader national technology policy-one perhaps not limited to defense technology. 14 The Critical Technologies Institute, which would be funded by the DOD, is also viewed by some as offering the possibility of analytical support for technology policy more broadly.
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The Carnegie Commission and the Council on Competitiveness recommend a review of the federal laboratories for the purpose of recommending wheth er to close, consolidate, or expand individual labs . The NAM report recommends more industry involvement in setting the research agenda of the federal labs and focusing selected labs on technolo gies relevant to industry, such as manufacturing processes.
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Support for reduction in the capital gains tax is found in the reports by OTA and OSTP, and the NACS report on capital investment. A ntitrust In the area of antitrust, the OTA and NACS reports support extending provisions of the National Cooperative Research Act to cover joint produc tion to reduce the legal uncertainties of such cooperative activities.
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exercise lead responsibility in the Executive Office for identifying, formulat ing, and evaluating policy issues related to the national technology base for consideration by other appropriate Executive Office councils and offices. It also recommends that the National Security Council should include in its purview broad issues of science and technology policy related to strengthen ing the national technology base.
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The Carnegie Commis sion report Technology and Economic Performance recommends increasing the technology policy analysis capability of OSTP through a dedicated in house staff and through the recently mandated Critical Technologies Insti tute. Opposing Views on Specific Recommendations In a few cases reports address the same policy areas but disagree on what action to take.
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