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The Need for National Consensus to Improve
The Need for National Consensus to Improve
Pages 511-516
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In January 1985 I was cochairman, with Admiral Bob Inman, of a session on the transition from basic research to commercial application at a meeting of the Business-Higher Education Forum. (The Forum is a group of university presidents and business leaders who get together to discuss critical common issues.)
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In the United States, a large, highly diverse country of independentminded people, a national consensus on a complex issue is extremely difficult to achieve and even more difficult to implement. In the Japanese culture, He line dividing He public and private sectors is very fine.
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Daniel Yankelovich, president of the Public Agenda Foundation, refers to this lack of resolve as this country's "commitment gap." One reason for the decline in our international competitiveness is Hat He United States does not maintain an environment conducive to He efficient commercialization of technology. In fact, the process is often impeded.
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~ Industry must work with the legislative and executive branches of both the federal and state governments, as partners rawer than adversaries, to try to develop policies that will increase our ability to compete. The role of the federal government in efforts to improve our international competitiveness will be critical.
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· The government should adopt antirust laws and policies that reflect the realities of an internationally competitive marketplace. · Perhaps most important, as government wrestles with assessments of the costs and benefits of environmental health and safety regulations, it must assess the impact of the various degrees of regulation on the international competitiveness of the affected industries.
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