The Payoff of Federal R&D:iPod, Google, and Human Genome Project

摘要

With the U.S. budget under intense pres-sure, lawmakers increasingly are looking to save money by cutting federal spending on research and development. But at two Cap-itol Hill briefings, experts offered compel-ling evidence that that federal investment can yield enormous dividends and warned that cuts to R&D could hinder future eco-nomic growth.