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Keynote Address by Jeff Bingaman
Pages 53-60

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From page 53...
... PART At: Speeches, Commissioned Papers, and Presentations at the Forum on Harnessing Science and Technology for America's Economic Future National Academy of Sciences Building Washington, D.C. February 2-3, 1998
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From page 55...
... I believe that the federal government must remain very broadly involved in ensuring the overall health of our research and innovation system. Our society' s continued ability to create and harness the fruits of research and innovation will probably be the single largest determinant of our future quality of life and standard of living.
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From page 56...
... Then, off in Geneva, some high-energy physicists invented and started using the World Wide Web as a practical way to share data via hypertext. This Web idea was picked up by graduate students at a federally funded center at the University of
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From page 57...
... A scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bob Hockaday, got an idea for a thin-film fuel cell that would produce electricity from methanol and that would be sufficiently compact that it could replace batteries in hand-held devices such as cellular telephones. He quit the lab to work on the idea in his basement, living off the income earned by his wife.
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From page 58...
... A focus on the societal aspects of the innovation society metaphor might lead to new insights into the roles that each of our social institutions will have to play in creating and sustaining innovation in the next century. For example: Elementary and secondary schools, already making efforts to provide higher-quality math and science education, might be encouraged to try to nurture the creative spark in all its manifestations.
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From page 59...
... Most of the acrimony about federal technology programs has died down. R&D funding, both in industry and the federal government, is up this year in real terms.
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