IP: Re: DE2000

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

I want to give a strong second to Chucks comments djf


> Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:40:07 -0400
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Charles Brownstein <cbrownst () cnri reston va us>
>
> Dave,
> I have glanced through the report and found it generally quite good.
>
> A truly astounding bit of blindness to the obvious however, is in the 
> sections on R&D and on "Why here and now".
>
> Is the Dept of Commerce the LAST bastion of ignorance about the government 
> investments in fundamental and applied research - as opposed to 
> "development" (the bulk of industry's R&D spending), with its available 
> knowledge and human resource creation?
>
> Today the US has the benefit of 30 years of such investment as a 
> foundation for damn near everything critical in this sector,  people and 
> technologies alike. I suppose it will take economists, the way they lag 
> reality, a long time to document this very fragile advantage.
>
> --
>
>
>
> Charles N. Brownstein
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