CED committee offers recommendations on federal basic research

From: JOM | Date: November 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

In June, the Committee for Economic Development (CED), a group of U.S. business and academic leaders, released a report reiterating the importance of federally supported basic research to the United States and offered recommendations on how the nation's research can remain strong in the next millennium. The report, America's Basic Research: Prosperity through Discovery, provides a series of case studies demonstrating the impact of basic research.

The report offers the following:

Policymakers should set broad national priorities for basic research that reflect the needs of society at large. ...

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