IP: Re: DE2000

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

I want to give a strong second to Chucks comments djf


>Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:40:07 -0400
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>From: Charles Brownstein <cbrownst@cnri.reston.va.us>
>
>Dave,
>I have glanced through the report and found it generally quite good.
>
>A truly astounding bit of blindness to the obvious however, is in the 
>sections on R&D and on "Why here and now".
>
>Is the Dept of Commerce the LAST bastion of ignorance about the government 
>investments in fundamental and applied research - as opposed to 
>"development" (the bulk of industry's R&D spending), with its available 
>knowledge and human resource creation?
>
>Today the US has the benefit of 30 years of such investment as a 
>foundation for damn near everything critical in this sector,  people and 
>technologies alike. I suppose it will take economists, the way they lag 
>reality, a long time to document this very fragile advantage.
>
>--
>
>
>
>Charles N. Brownstein
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