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economic leadership are eroding at a time when many other nations are gathering strength." The report laid out 20 recommendations in four broad areas -- K-12 education, science and engineering research, higher education, and economic and technology policy -- and warned that a failure to take action could have dire economic consequences. As the committee that wrote the Gathering Storm report concluded, "we fear the abruptness with which a lead in science and technology can be lost -- and the difficulty of recovering a lead once lost." Rising Above the Gathering Storm sparked intense discussions among policy makers, industrial leaders, and the general public.
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Entitled "Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Developing Regional Innovation Environments," the workshop brought together leaders in education, government, economic development, and industrial innovation to discuss state and regional initiatives to boost competitiveness through science, technology, and innovation. The conference -- which was sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the Morgridge Institute for Research, and the National Research Council -- was organized around four major themes: • Revitalizing K-12 Science and Mathematics Education • Strengthening Undergraduate Education in Science and Engineering • Building Effective Partnerships Among Governments, Universities, Companies, and Other Stakeholders • Fostering Regional Technology Development and Entrepreneurship The presentations given in each of these four areas are summarized in chapters 2 through 5 of this report.
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We want to make every region in the country strong." Carl Gulbrandsen, the managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, said that the great strength of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery is the ability "to leverage the human capital and the infrastructure of a great public research university, and .
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On June 30, the NAS received a bipartisan letter containing similar questions from the House of Representatives and requesting a response within 90 days. Within a few weeks, the NAS, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine, through their Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, formed a 20-member committee that included Nobel laureates, the directors of national laboratories, university presidents, corporate chief executives, and former government officials.
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"The United States has taken actions," said Mote in his workshop remarks, "but they are too little, they are without long-term commitment, they do not engage those responsible, and they do not reflect an appreciation of the accelerating ad vancement of other countries. It's fair to conclude that a top priority commitment to U.S.
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