Experiments in International Benchmarking of US Research Fields (2000) / Chapter Skim
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At the same time, there is little debate about the necessity for sustained agendas of both basic and applied research.3 Retrospective studies consistently describe the power of research to produce breakthroughs years and even decades after the work has been performed.4 Therefore, the committee has no doubt about the need for sustained federal funding of basic research in every major field. 2COSEPUP, Capitalizing on Investments in Science and Technology, 1999.
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. "Among the world leaders" means that the United States should have capabilities and infrastructures of support that are not substantially exceeded elsewhere.
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In other major fields, the United States should perform on a par with other nations so that it is 'poised to pounce' if future discoveries increase the importance of one of these fields." In the goals report, COSEPUP considered the question of how to measure leadership. How can the federal government gauge the overall health of scientific research as a whole and in its parts and determine whether national funding adequately supports national research objectives?
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" The panel would then consider the mission objectives of the particular agency in the context of an assessment of the nation's scientific leadership status. In the language of COSEPUP's GPRA report: For agencies whose missions include a specific responsibility for basic research such as the National Science Foundation in broad fields of science and engineering, the National Institutes of Health in fields related to health, or the Department of Energy in high-energy physics world leadership in a field can itself be an agency goal.
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The committee held a workshop to obtain input from agencies, policy-makers, disciplinary societies, and others on the feasibility and utility of benchmarking; the workshop provided material for chapter 4, in which COSEPUP develops its findings, and chapter 5, where those findings are discussed. Conclusions are listed in chapter 6.
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