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The United States of America and Scientific Research
To gauge the current commitment to scientific research in the United States of America (US), we compared federal research funding (FRF) with the US gross domestic product (GDP) and industry research spending during the past six decades. In order to address the recent globalization of scientific rese...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2922381/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20808949 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012203 |
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author | Hather, Gregory J. Haynes, Winston Higdon, Roger Kolker, Natali Stewart, Elizabeth A. Arzberger, Peter Chain, Patrick Field, Dawn Franza, B. Robert Lin, Biaoyang Meyer, Folker Ozdemir, Vural Smith, Charles V. van Belle, Gerald Wooley, John Kolker, Eugene |
author_facet | Hather, Gregory J. Haynes, Winston Higdon, Roger Kolker, Natali Stewart, Elizabeth A. Arzberger, Peter Chain, Patrick Field, Dawn Franza, B. Robert Lin, Biaoyang Meyer, Folker Ozdemir, Vural Smith, Charles V. van Belle, Gerald Wooley, John Kolker, Eugene |
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description | To gauge the current commitment to scientific research in the United States of America (US), we compared federal research funding (FRF) with the US gross domestic product (GDP) and industry research spending during the past six decades. In order to address the recent globalization of scientific research, we also focused on four key indicators of research activities: research and development (R&D) funding, total science and engineering doctoral degrees, patents, and scientific publications. We compared these indicators across three major population and economic regions: the US, the European Union (EU) and the People's Republic of China (China) over the past decade. We discovered a number of interesting trends with direct relevance for science policy. The level of US FRF has varied between 0.2% and 0.6% of the GDP during the last six decades. Since the 1960s, the US FRF contribution has fallen from twice that of industrial research funding to roughly equal. Also, in the last two decades, the portion of the US government R&D spending devoted to research has increased. Although well below the US and the EU in overall funding, the current growth rate for R&D funding in China greatly exceeds that of both. Finally, the EU currently produces more science and engineering doctoral graduates and scientific publications than the US in absolute terms, but not per capita. This study's aim is to facilitate a serious discussion of key questions by the research community and federal policy makers. In particular, our results raise two questions with respect to: a) the increasing globalization of science: “What role is the US playing now, and what role will it play in the future of international science?”; and b) the ability to produce beneficial innovations for society: “How will the US continue to foster its strengths?” |
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spelling | pubmed-29223812010-08-31 The United States of America and Scientific Research Hather, Gregory J. Haynes, Winston Higdon, Roger Kolker, Natali Stewart, Elizabeth A. Arzberger, Peter Chain, Patrick Field, Dawn Franza, B. Robert Lin, Biaoyang Meyer, Folker Ozdemir, Vural Smith, Charles V. van Belle, Gerald Wooley, John Kolker, Eugene PLoS One Research Article To gauge the current commitment to scientific research in the United States of America (US), we compared federal research funding (FRF) with the US gross domestic product (GDP) and industry research spending during the past six decades. In order to address the recent globalization of scientific research, we also focused on four key indicators of research activities: research and development (R&D) funding, total science and engineering doctoral degrees, patents, and scientific publications. We compared these indicators across three major population and economic regions: the US, the European Union (EU) and the People's Republic of China (China) over the past decade. We discovered a number of interesting trends with direct relevance for science policy. The level of US FRF has varied between 0.2% and 0.6% of the GDP during the last six decades. Since the 1960s, the US FRF contribution has fallen from twice that of industrial research funding to roughly equal. Also, in the last two decades, the portion of the US government R&D spending devoted to research has increased. Although well below the US and the EU in overall funding, the current growth rate for R&D funding in China greatly exceeds that of both. Finally, the EU currently produces more science and engineering doctoral graduates and scientific publications than the US in absolute terms, but not per capita. This study's aim is to facilitate a serious discussion of key questions by the research community and federal policy makers. In particular, our results raise two questions with respect to: a) the increasing globalization of science: “What role is the US playing now, and what role will it play in the future of international science?”; and b) the ability to produce beneficial innovations for society: “How will the US continue to foster its strengths?” Public Library of Science 2010-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2922381/ /pubmed/20808949 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012203 Text en This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Public Domain declaration which stipulates that, once placed in the public domain, this work may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Public Domain declaration, which stipulates that, once placed in the public domain, this work may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hather, Gregory J. Haynes, Winston Higdon, Roger Kolker, Natali Stewart, Elizabeth A. Arzberger, Peter Chain, Patrick Field, Dawn Franza, B. Robert Lin, Biaoyang Meyer, Folker Ozdemir, Vural Smith, Charles V. van Belle, Gerald Wooley, John Kolker, Eugene The United States of America and Scientific Research |
title | The United States of America and Scientific Research |
title_full | The United States of America and Scientific Research |
title_fullStr | The United States of America and Scientific Research |
title_full_unstemmed | The United States of America and Scientific Research |
title_short | The United States of America and Scientific Research |
title_sort | united states of america and scientific research |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2922381/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20808949 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012203 |
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