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9 PITFALLS, PROGRESS, AND OPPORTUNITIES
Pages 85-88

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From page 85...
... For example, the doubling of the NIH budget drove a large expansion of biomedical research facilities at research universities in the expectation that increases would continue. The suspension of real growth at NIH halted the growth of indirect cost recovery to pay for those buildings, with adverse effects for other parts of the university.
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From page 86...
... Natural language processing, machine learning technologies, and crowd sourcing will increasingly glean many reasonably accurate metrics from publications, patents, social networks, blogs, and so forth, and this capability will increase over time. Furthermore, this approach will be less costly and provide more information than government mandated reporting.
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From page 87...
... OPPORTUNITIES POSED BY GREATER UNDERSTANDING • The science of science policy has an opportunity to examine the broader issues of economic growth and societal change if it interprets its agenda broadly. As an example of an important albeit difficult question, are additional funds most usefully spent on health-related R and D or on insurance?
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From page 88...
... To what extent should education be emphasized in that spending? CONCLUDING REMARKS Finally, several speakers on the panel emphasized that scholars studying these issues should be humble, sensitive, and do no harm, which is a message Irwin Feller delivered at the beginning of the workshop.
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