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Views and Concerns of the U.S. Science and Technology Community
Views and Concerns of the U.S. Science and Technology Community
Pages 13-23
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We have, therefore, a natural interest in maintaining these strong bilateral cooperative links in education and basic research as well as in industry technology. The establishment of the European Community raises a question as to whether these traditional ties are being disrupted or at least changed substantially because of the EC or if, alternatively, the EC constitutes for the United States just one more actor in a complex web of 13
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And while the reasons for European unification are complex and many, one might well ask whether the process or the rapid pace that we are witnessing today would have come about without the knowledge revolution that is occurring at the same time. The effect of the new knowledge economy is to underscore the critical importance of investing in science and engineering research and of having a well-educated technical work force.
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European countries, through their investment in the human resource base, are beginning to shorten the once substantial lead the United States enjoyed in technical personnel. The demand for a highly educated technical work force is increasing on both sides of the Atlantic, and because of demographics shortages are developing both here and there.
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Contacts with the principal investigators in our universities at the basic research level occur mostly through public research facilities supported by national governments, augmented by university researchers. This is the level of interaction that is the focus of our bilateral arrangements with the individual countries.
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Technology transfer is another issue. The obvious interest of eastern European countries in the rich markets and developmental possibilities of the western European arrangement could also raise questions with respect to technology transfer.
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Between the European countries and the United States, there are differences in style, in culture, in the way governments behave, and in their relationship with industry. It's not to say that one is right or one is wrong.
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The future situation is probably advantageous as far as the relationship between the United States and Europe is concerned, not only for the obvious reason that it is easier to manage a bilateral relationship than a multilateral one, but also because it will be possible to negotiate and to have mutual monitoring. The United States, I think, will have a greater influence on the Community compared with its influence on the individual member states.
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Seventy-five percent of the basic research in Europe is not done in universities; it's done in government labs. It might even be done in EC labs in the future.
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Under the provisions of this new consortium, it is more possible than before to associate small laboratories, small industries why not your small chemical industries to big companies, with some new and very interesting and effective formulas. So we do hope that the new program will allow us to obtain much more coordination of the activities of small and medium-sized enterprises and the .
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By the way, let me focus on one aspect of it. Basic research applies to engineering research as well as scientific research, and I think that's where we have a problem once in a while, that everything that has the label engineering somewhere is automatically advanced research, at best, development more likely.
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For example, we have one of the well-known EUREKA projects, Project JESSI. Our problem has been how to identify precisely one part of this microelectronics program that is purely precompetitive research not directly related to the final production of memories, etc.
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