

Going face-to-face interaction of highly trained scientists and engineers. Of multinational enterprises, effective transfer of knowledge and technology-īoth within and among institutionscontinues to demand the intensive and on. Second, in spite of the global communications revolution and the expansion With them accrue to many individuals other than those who perform the R&D or Prise, it is essential to understand both the nature of R&D activity and how itįirst, R&D activity yields many valuable outputs, and the benefits associated To assess the consequences of foreign participation in the U.S. Individuals) to participate on a significant scale in the U.S. The technical and economic capabilities needed for their citizens (companies and Recently, however, have a growing number of America's trading partners acquired United States' unrivaled capacity for spawning new industries and products. Mestic market, by the strength of the U.S. States for decades, drawn by the size, wealth, and sophistication of the U.S. To be sure,įoreign companies, scientists, and engineers have been attracted to the United

Relatively less foreign participation in its domestic R&D enterprise.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTĬountries' national innovation systems. Tional companies have been the leading foreign participants in many of theseįOREIGN PARTICIPATION IN U.S. Rate involvement in their domestic R&D activities. trading partners have long had significant levels of foreign corpo. R&D, will continue apace into the next century. Vinced that these trends, which have fueled the recent growth of foreign participa. The second, its corollary, is a convergence of the industrialĪnd technological capabilities of industrialized countries. Systems2 through the activities of multinational companies and individual scien. Is a move toward deeper integration of the world's major national innovation Viewed in the context of two broad trends in the international economy. The recent growth of foreign participation in U.S.-based R&D should be Two integrally related halves of the trend.ĪSSESSING FOREIGN PARTICIPATION IN U.S. R&D, the report evaluates separately these R&D is governed by a different political-economic logic than foreign in. Proceeding from a belief that foreign participation in publicly funded The potential benefits of increasing foreign participation in the nation's R&D en. Lic- and private-sector actions to minimize the potential liabilities and maximize Mance and national security, draws conclusions, and recommends specific pub. It assesses the consequences of this trend for U.S. This report examines the recent growth of involvement by foreign nation-Īlscompanies and individuals in U.S.-based research and development Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages. Below is the uncorrected machine-read text of this chapter, intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text of each book.
