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3 Public Policy Information Needs
Pages 8-12

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... The overlap of public and private interests in better indicators and analysis of research and innovation creates opportunities for public-private partnerships in data collection and dissemination. Jeanne Griffith, director of the NSF's Science Resources Studies Division, observed that the NSF's interest in sponsoring the workshop derived from its legislative mandate to provide a clearinghouse for the collection and interpretation of data on scientific and engineering resources in the United States and to provide a source of information for policy formulation by other federal government agencies.
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... MACROECONOMIC POLICY Tim Brennan, senior economist on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers, noted that better information on R&D and innovation would inform federal budget decisions regarding the allocation of funds in support of science and technology. To address the basic question of how much the government should spend on R&D and in what areas, information is needed on the benefits and costs of subsidizing R&D and on the market failures that justify government intervention, because private incentives left to themselves will not produce socially optimal results.
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... The FTC judged that these two firms controlled key intellectual property assets for the development of gene therapy products generally and in particular applications such as cancer. The Commission accordingly issued a consent decree requiring the firms to license some of their
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... Another example of how EPA's research and information dissemination function requires substantial use of data on new technologies and innovative activity is the agency' s activities in support of better indoor air technologies, practices, and materials. Survey information on existing and planned technologies plays a large role in EPA's nonregulatory functions.
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... Better information on specific technologies and improvements in the national S&T data system generally could facilitate common international characterizations of new technologies. CONGRESSIONAL CONCERNS Tom Weimer, staff director of the Subcommittee on Basic Research of the House Committee on Science, listed several issues of concern to Congress that might be more easily resolved with information on research and innovation: What are appropriate levels of direct R&D support in light of the priority to reduce the federal budget deficit?
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