Capitalizing on New Needs and New Opportunities Government-Industry Partnerships in Biotechnology and Information Technologies (2001) / Chapter Skim
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Despite the importance of these programs, and their interaction with the private sector, there has been little systematic analysis of the operation and impact of this form of government-industry collaboration. To improve policymakers' understanding of the performance of partnerships, the National Research Council's Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP)
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The conference brought together academic experts, entrepreneurs, government officials, and others with knowledge and experience in government support for biotechnology and information technology. The conference focused on the nature and implications of emerging trends of the federal research portfolio in biotechnology and information technology, particularly, unplanned shifts in the allocation across sectors of federal funding over the past decade.
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· The disjuncture between the incentives faced by young academics to 3see comments in this volume by congressman Sherwood soehlert, ``siomedical research is consuming too much of the federal research budget.~, 4see Michael McGeary, ``Recent Trends in the Federal Funding of Research and Development Related to Health and Information Technology,,, in this volume. 5see, for example, comments in this volume by Mark sOguski of the National Center for siOtechnology Information (NIH)
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The different tools of federal government support for the development of new technologies.8 Issues related to industrial competitiveness of the U.S., particularly in regard to declining federal investments in key sectors of the nation's R&D enterprise.9 · The need for policymakers to possess better information on the magni tudes, distribution, and mechanisms for federal support of R&D.10 . The Committee's core findings and recommendations from this study are summarized below.
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investments in research especially in biomedicineshow great promise, capturing their full potential requires complementary research investments in information technologies, where the federal support has recently waned.l3 Partnerships across disciplines and between universities and companies, although often challenging to implement, are increasingly required to capture the full potential of current investments in biotechnology.l4 Regular and more timely review by industry, the scientific community, and the federal government can draw out the implications of the recent decline in federal funding for non-defense research in the physical sciences and engineering, and address possible solutions.l5 1 1 For recent analysis of federal research funding, see National Research Council, Trends in Federal Support of Research and Graduate Education, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2001.
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to which the health of individual fields and interrelationships among fields are taken into account; and (3) studies of methodologies for allocating federal research funding according to national rather than merely departmental criteria and priorities." 16Glue grants, to support initiatives such as the Berkeley Health Initiative can help address this need.
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