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April 2005

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Worries About Cuts to Federal R&D

April 17, 2005/In: Funding, R&D in the Press /by Peter Harsha

The Seattle PI makes the economic case for federal support of R&D in an editorial today. But what happens if the United States not only gives up every trade protection benefit, continues to suffer a loss of manufacturing and fritters away its research leadership in science, medicine and technology? That’s a lose-lose proposition. And it […]

The Drumbeat Continues: SJ Merc News on DARPA IT R&D and Universities

April 17, 2005/In: Funding, Policy, R&D in the Press /by Peter Harsha

Following in the wake of news stories and OpEds in the New York Times, the San Jose Mercury News editorializes today on the negative impact of DARPA’s shift away from university researchers in computer science and engineering. Of all the government sources of funding for basic technology research, few have delivered more breakthroughs for Silicon […]