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4 Government Roles and Priorities
4 Government Roles and Priorities
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Nevertheless, the forum participants recognized that the federal government will continue to be pivotal and that decisions made in the 1990s will probably influence federal policies for years to come. The forum was able to draw on the recent work of several other expert groups who have examined federal science and technology policies in recent years (Branscomb et.
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Finally, the dramatic improvement in the federal government' s fiscal position in recent years appears to have lowered the political heat related to debates over specific programs. What will the emerging consensus on federal science and technology policy look like?
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A federal government commitment to double science and technology spending within a limited period, which is being debated, could be an important first step toward revitalizing the federal role in promoting science and technology for economic growth. STATE, LOCAL, AND REGIONAL INITIATIVES One of the truly important developments in the use of science and technology resources in aid of economic development during the 1980s and 1990s was the proliferation of state-sponsored partnerships among government, universities, and the private sector.
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2{ These intermediary organizations include the Cleveland Advanced Manufacturing Program, the Edison BioTechnology Center, the Edison Polymer Innovation Corporation, the Great Lakes Industrial Technology Center, and the Ohio Aerospace Institute.
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In 1995, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy created a task force to recommend ways of improving the state-federal science and technology relationship, with particular regard to maximizing the economic benefits of greater cooperation. The task-force report called for presidential leadership to create a truly national, as distinct from federal, science and technology policy, taking into account the roles and contributions of states, localities, and the private sector (State-Federal Technology Partnership Task Force, 19951.
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Taiwan's government has since invested over $520 million in land acquisition and infrastructure. The park capitalizes on the proximity of Chiao Tung University, Tsing Hua University, and the Industrial Technology Research Institute.
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