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[...]a reorientation away from basic research and toward more attention to broad societal challenges or specific local needs is an idea with profound implications that should be carefully considered. Since the federal governments decision at the end of World War II to make universities the center of...

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Published in:Issues in science and technology 2015-07, Vol.31 (4), p.5
Main Author: Feller, Irwin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomedical research
Colleges & universities
Construction
Distance Education
Educational Change
Elementary Secondary Education
Engineering
Engineers
Futures (of Society)
Gibbons, Michael
Government agencies
Higher education
Interdisciplinary Approach
Interdisciplinary aspects
Investments
Knowledge Economy
Open Enrollment
Problem Solving
Public Colleges
Research funding
Research Universities
Student Financial Aid
Students
Studies
Undergraduate Students
Universities
World War II
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Summary:[...]a reorientation away from basic research and toward more attention to broad societal challenges or specific local needs is an idea with profound implications that should be carefully considered. Since the federal governments decision at the end of World War II to make universities the center of the nations research enterprise, the United States has come to rely almost exclusively on these institutions for the fundamental discoveries on which the flow of new knowledge and new applications depends. If indeed undertaken, any such reexamination must be driven and shaped by more than the admittedly troubled setting of the academic biomedical sciences. [...]to attend only to the matter of research space, academic research space devoted to the biological and biomedical sciences constituted the largest share of all such space, but this share represented only 27% of the total, according to a report by Michael Gibbons, Research Space at Academic Institutions Increased 4.7% between FY2011 and FY2013, issued as an InfoBrief by the National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statics in March 2015.
ISSN:0748-5492
1938-1557