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Keynote Address: Unlocking Our Future
Keynote Address: Unlocking Our Future
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The report strongly endorses the need for a major federal role in funding individual investigators for pursuit of fundamental research in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering. The goal of the report is to strengthen the basic research enterprise in the country.
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The current surplus of federal funds adds a twist to the overall budget strategy but does not alter the fact that discretionary restraints must be incorporated. The Private Sector Research in industry is important for harvesting the fruits of basic research that benefit society.
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In the words of the Ehiers report: We must ensure that the well of scientific discovery does not run dry, by facilitating and encouraging advances in fundamental research. We must see that this well of discovery is not allowed to stagnate.
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