Major shifts in world economy confront U.S. status as industrial leader, says new S&E indicators report

摘要

Recent shifts in industrial re-search and deveopment (R&D) in the United States and abroad - especially in Asia - are narrowing the margin of techno-logical advantage of U.S. firms, according to a new government The U.S. remains the leading performer of R&D by a wide margin, accounting for about 44 percent of the industrial world's investment, although America's share has declined over the last These observations are among hundreds of trends and statistics in the National Science Board report, Science and Engineering Indicators 1996.