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6. Challenges
Pages 26-29

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... In addition, given the limited experience of Americans in Japanese laboratories and the strength of Japan in some fields of science and technology, the United States faces an urgent challenge in learning how to access and participate in Japan's research and development system. It could be argued that the challenge to Japan is also significant: to open its research and development system to meaningful foreign participation soon enough to meet rising expectations abroad that Japan will play a growing role in basic science and technology transfer.
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From page 27...
... 1 F Karl Willenbrock, "Remarks on Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Institutional Relationships in Engineering Education," Proceedings of the Fourth United States-Japan Science Policy Seminar (Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation, 1988)
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From page 28...
... At the same time, there is increasing controversy in the United States over the way in which federal grants are determined. With the increasing costs of research and declining federal budgets, researchers complain that too much money is being allocated to "indirect" costs; administrators claim they are not being fully reimbursed for indirect expenses; and the government worries that researchers are not being held accountable to the taxpayer for the money they receive.
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... Corporations are more likely to cut university funding than their own research staffs when profits falter. Both the United States and Japan are also challenged by a lagging interest in graduate engineering education.
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