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DINNER SPEECH, The Changing Face of Industrial Research
DINNER SPEECH, The Changing Face of Industrial Research
Pages 159-168
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The focus of the industrial research that remains has changed -- except for the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, industrial research no longer includes basic research. Why and how did these changes come about?
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First, in 1945, the Office of Naval Research was founded, the first government agency responsible for funding research that did not necessarily address immediate requirements for the military. This was the start of federal funding for basic research in our universities.
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The Clean Air Act became law and emissions regulations, fuel-economy regulations, and regulations limiting emissions from manufacturing plants were passed. It was not hard to find research areas that could provide a fundamental understanding that would be relevant to meeting these demands, but it took time for people to reorient their thinking and embrace problems that were relevant to the new needs of the company.
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In other words, there was still an effective mass concentrated in areas that would logically support the large, more applied programs that, in turn, supported the operating divisions. I am sure Gerhard will understand that maintaining basic research programs was possible only because we were able to hide them.
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As companies have reduced the size, or even eliminated, their research laboratories or, at least, eliminated long-term research in their laboratories, many have increased their cooperation with universities, particularly in the bioscience and engineering sectors. As a result, little basic research is being done today by industry, although many industry segments continue to support some basic research, mostly in universities rather than in their own laboratories.
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The National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine recently published a study on the subject of engineering and health care delivery. The focus was not just on bioengineering and biomedical engineering, as important as they are, but also on the system by which care is provided to people -- such as system optimization, sensors, remote communications, telemedicine, and making every hospital room an intensive care unit.
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Because other nations have, and probably will continue to have, the competitive advantage of a low-wage structure, the United States must compete by optimizing its knowledge-based resources, particularly in science and technology, and by sustaining the most fertile environment for new and revitalized industries and the well-paying jobs they bring." I leave you with a big question. How will, or can, our institutions respond to these challenges?
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