National Science and Technology Strategies in a Global Context Report of an International Symposium (1998) / Chapter Skim
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Implementing and Evaluating Science and Technology Strategies
Implementing and Evaluating Science and Technology Strategies
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is a national facility that is partly funded through budget allocations and partly supported through contracts with government and industry customers. It is one of the longest existing national programs aimed at civil industrial technology in the world.
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It is even able to give development loans. A recent evaluation of Tekes-funded projects found that the volume of net sales and exports achieved with Tekes funding is 10-20 times the initial investment, that four to five new jobs are created per million marks invested, and that without the 28 National Science and Technology Strategies
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Finland is now a member of the European Union, and we are a full member of all the programs. Active participation in the R&D programs such as the Framework Program, Eureka, and so forth, is especially important in order to help define the content and objectives.
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CHEN ZHANG-LIANG' PEKING UNIVERSITY' CHINA National Context for Chinese Science and Technology Policies I would like begin with a brief overview of the national priorities that the Chinese government is working to address, and explain how strategic planning for science and technology policies and changes in the organization of science and technology relate to these national goals. The four national goals I want to mention are: (1)
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We believe that China needs to be self sufficient in food, which is why we are focusing on introducing modern technology into Chinese agriculture, especially agricultural biotechnology. The Chinese government has been putting resources into this, and will continue to do so.
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As a result of the high technology planning and investment program in agricultural biotechnology much is being done in areas such as disease and insect resistant crops, higher quality varieties, and yield improvement. China is one of the leading countries in terms of field release of transgenic plants.
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So over the next 10 or 15 years we can expect to see a great deal of progress in Chinese science. So far the Chinese government has moved quickly to promote science and technology.
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If you look at magnetic recording, not only were all VCRs made in Japan at that point, but also forty percent of the magnetic disk drives for computers. There were a number of highly successful Japanese industry consortia supported by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI)
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Given the disagreement in the community over whether priority should be given to single investigator or center work, it is important to note that the ERC program involved extra money that did not come from funds that could have supported single investigators. By 1989, it seemed that the way to make MTC effective in the long term would be to develop a coherent centralized focus to the research.
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More recently, Japanese industrial firms formed a consortium, with no government sponsorship, with the stated purpose of forming centers like those at CMU, the University of California San Diego, and Stanford. They want to fund university research in Japan much like NSIC is doing in the United States.
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As for the future, I will give one final comment. Although the ERC program has been highly successful, there are only a limited number of these in the United States.
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