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9 Synthesis Viewpoint: What Did We Learn Today?
9 Synthesis Viewpoint: What Did We Learn Today?
Pages 68-70
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Much of the workshop discussion focused on the fact that the end of the Cold War and the coming reductions in the federal budgets will require a cultural change in the research community. John Seely Brown's point about the historical evolution of research at Xerox from grounded research to open-loop research was very interesting and is indicative of the need for some kind of change in culture, both within academia and in NSF.
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This was a major recommendation of a recent study of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP; Science, Technology, and the Federal Government: National Goals for a New Era, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1994) , which stated that the United States should be among the world's leaders in all areas of science and clearly leading in certain fields of science.
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The final issue area is that this assessment process should look to the future as well as to the past. Some means should be developed for determining whether the right basis for budgeting and program planning is being established.
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