U.S. Advantage in Science and Technology is Eroding

October 12, 2005

U.S. advantages in the marketplace and in science and technology have Gathering Stormeroded, says a panel of the National Academy of Sciences in a new report. The panel included Charles Vest, a Kavli Foundation board member and the emeritus president of MIT, and Nobel Laureate Robert C. Richardson, Director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell, and that university's senior vice provost for research. The report makes substantive recommendations for improvement. The entire report can also be read or purchased here.

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