Beginning a Dialogue on the Changing Environment for the Physical and Mathematical Sciences Report of a Conference (1994) / Chapter Skim
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Further, although the research enterprise is a critical component of the nation's innovation system, it cannot, by itself, deliver the bulk of the economic, social, and cultural dividends that are inherent in new discoveries regarding the natural world. Moreover, we were all acutely conscious of the fact that other countries particularly our chief trading partners- have organized their overall innovation systems (from discovery research to commercial application)
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, including its investment in R&D particularly the nature and level of its support of its own laboratories and of university-based research programs. · Increasing evidence that the number of highly qualified investigators, and of challenging research issues, is growing faster than the public's willingness and/or capacity to support such efforts.
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7. Science requires public support, and publicly supported science is therefore a civic activity (i.e., has civic responsibilities)
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The problem of the diminishing attractiveness of academic careers. The issue is not whether university-based researchers are treated well enough, but whether the current portfolio of privileges and responsibilities will attract a sufficient share of the nation's best talent to enable this critical component of the nation's education and innovation system to meet its civic responsibilities.
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Is the goal of U.S. science policy the full employment of all qualified investigators, or the assurance of U.S.
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administration is considering a new approach to science policy and new roles for government laboratories, and universities are experiencing considerable distress in trying to maintain quality and vitality in carrying out their responsibilities within the overall research system. In this rapidly changing environment, new ideas and flexibilities are required, but the greatest need is a better understanding of how our national innovation system, which was greatly changed and vastly expanded after World War IT, needs to be reshaped to meet the civic responsibilities of the science enterprise in the next decade.
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