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Appendix I: Global Investments in Science and Engineering - A Dynamic Landscape
Pages 151-156

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... research community. Increase in Global R&D expenditures Worldwide R&D expenditure nearly doubled in the ten years leading up to 2009, reaching $1.276 trillion in 2009 (Figure I-1; National Science Board.
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... Countries are grouped according to the regions described by the World Factbooks, www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/indix.html. SOURCES: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, estimates, July 2011.
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... The United States depends heavily on foreign-born S&E talent. In 2009 25 percent of S&E workers in the United States were foreign born, as were 42 percent of doctorate holders in S&E occupations (National Science Board.
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... . Data for United Kingdom, United States, and Australia based on country of residence, data for Germany and Switzerland based on country of prior education; data from other countries based on country of citizenship.
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... U.S. universities are devising new and innovative international science partnerships, as they adapt to the rise in student mobility, the unmet worldwide need for higher education, and the need to facilitate collaborative projects for their faculty (National Research Council, 2012)
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... Arlington VA: National Science Foundation (NSB 12-01)
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