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Scientific research is becoming increasingly more globalized and more collaborative. At the same time, there is growing pressure within the United States to justify government funding for science and technology (S&T). The potential conflict between these developments raises questions of whether U.S. investment in S&T benefits U.S. taxpayers and whether investment in scientific capacity building overseas has created competition rather than mere assistance. To understand the answers to these questions, this report describes the scope and nature of U.S. spending on international cooperative research and development (ICRD) in fiscal year (FY) 1997. Most spending (over 90 percent) is for collaboration on common research problems among scientists from different countries. Aerospace S&T dominated spending, with biomedical science a distant second. This book finds that the federal government spent $4.4 billion on ICRD in FY 1997, an increase of $1.1 billion over FY 1995. However, this figure may reflect better data collection and increased reporting, rather than an actual increase in spending. The only notable change in the two-year period involves a substantial increase in cooperative activity with Russia, tied heavily to space-related projects.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Central government

• Full title: International Cooperation in Research and Development
• Subtitle: An Update to an Inventory of U.S. Government Spending
• Author: Caroline S. Wagner, Allison Yezril, Scott Hassell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 66
• EAN: 9780833029256
• ISBN: 0833029258
• ID: 04733720
• Publisher: RAND
• Weight: 213 g
• Dimensions: 277 × 212 × 5 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 1999

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