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National Science Foundation, 1958 - 223 páginas

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Página 9 - ... (a) To construct, acquire, or establish laboratories and other facilities for the conduct of research. (b) To undertake and utilize applied research. (c) To collect research information related to a particular industry and disseminate it to participating members. (d) To conduct applied research on a protected, proprietary, and contractual basis with member or nonmember concerns, Government agencies, and others.
Página 16 - The establishment of long-range studies of the potential benefits to be gained from, the opportunities for, and the problems involved in the utilization of aeronautical and space activities for peaceful and scientific purposes...
Página 67 - Take interest, I implore you, in those sacred dwellings which one designates by the expressive term: LABORATORIES. Demand that they be multiplied, that they be adorned : these are the temples of the future — temples of wellbeing and of happiness. There it is that humanity grows greater, stronger, better.
Página 16 - The preservation of the role of the United States as a leader in aeronautical and space science and technology...
Página 9 - Congress that assistance be given to small-business concerns to enable them to undertake and to obtain the benefits of research and development in order to maintain and strengthen the competitive free enterprise system and the national economy.
Página 62 - Research projects which represent original investigation for the advancement of scientific knowledge and which do not have specific commercial objectives, although they may be in fields of present or potential interest to the reporting company.
Página 29 - To promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense; and for other purposes.
Página 108 - Increase the capacity of the economy to raise the demand for goods. It is obvious that technological research increases the capacity of the economy to raise productivity. Less obvious and indeed generally overlooked is the fact that research gives the economy the capacity to bring about planned increases in the demand for goods — both by creating new demands for consumption goods and by creating new investment opportunities.
Página 117 - Government support of research is only a small fraction of the amount that would yield enormous returns to the community. Indeed, it is safe to say that there is no field where larger Government expenditures would produce as rich a return as greater outlays on research — and also on the necessary foundations for research, the education of talented people.
Página 107 - Measured in terms of the number of scientists and engineers devoting full time to it, re88 search "is more than five times as large as it was in 1930, and measured by the ratio of research expenditures to the gross national product, it is about thirteen times as large.

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