more on Losing Our Edge?

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:53:05 -0400
From: Tice DeYoung <Tice.DeYoung-1@>

   FYI, here is an email from the Asian Technology Information Program 
that came yesterday.  It rovides a pointer to a short summary of the 
Japanese government's 2004 S&T budget.  It does not give me any warm fuzzy 
feelings.  By the way, the ATIP reports are extremely well written and very 
thorough.  They do an excellent job of covering R&D in that area of the 
world.  I know that they are read with great interest throughout the 
Pacific Rim.  I highly recommend subscribing to ATIP for anyone interested 
in science & technology.

   I have been concerned about the U.S. losing its technology edge for 
almost 10 years.  Industry suffers from the short term view because of 
their bottom line per quarter mentality.  The US government used to provide 
a stable base of funding for basic research and early development, which 
industry then picked up and made into products.  However, for the past 10 
years industry has had to cherry pick the low hanging technology 
fruit.  This is now beginning to disappear because it takes 8-10 years for 
basic research to get to the product stage.  Now it seems the only federal 
agency still providing significant funds for basic R&D  is NSF.

   The saddest part of this is that if the U.S. loses the technology edge, 
we will not get it back.  No other country would be short sighted or 
foolish enough to ever relinquish the lead, once obtained.

Tice


At 2:35 PM -0600 4/21/04, Asian Technology Information Program wrote:
> Dear ATIP Reader,
>
> ATIP has now published the following report:
>
> ATIP04.016: Japanese 2004 S&T Budget
>
> ABSTRACT: This report summarizes the Japanese government 2004 S&T budget.
> In the first part, the Japanese funding policy on S&T budget and the
> Japanese national budget in JFY 2004 (Japanese Fiscal Year, starting April
> 1st, 2004 and ending March 31st, 2005) on science and technology are
> summarized. In the second part, national programs on quantum information
> and spintronics technology, as well as on nanotechnology are summarized.
>
> KEYWORDS: Advanced Materials, Biotechnology, Government Policy on Science
> and Technology, High-Performance Computing, Nanotechnology
>
> COUNTRY(S): Japan
>
> A summary of the remainder of this report (including a table of contents)
> is available on our website at:
>
> http://www.atip.org/public/atip.reports.04/atip04.016.pdf
>
> You may also reply to this email to receive the summary automatically.
>
> The size of the summary is: 4 pages (17,718 bytes)
>
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