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CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE
The national science and technology environment at the onset of 1996 is charged
with strong currents of change and contending visions of the future. The leaders
gathering for exchange of ideas at the Government-University-Industry Research
Roundtable are among those who feel these currents and uncertainties most directly. Our
challenge is to identify priority concerns, and to assure a forum conducive to new ways
of looking at the key questions, conflicts, and possible pathways to resolution. Our goal,
building on Roundtable sessions, is to stimulate fresh approaches by appropriate
governmental and non-governmental entities. I welcome our new Executive Director, Dr.
Thomas H. Moss, who will lead and coordinate our efforts. We want to see the best of
the new ideas put to test or to pilot application, with eventual development to modernized
standards of practice.
We are in a critical but propitious era for American science and technology. We
are experiencing severe budget stress in both the public and private sectors, and yet we
see new opportunities--brought about by the end of Cold War limitations in exchange of
ideas, people, and commerce. However, disagreements persist in both the public and
private sectors about the long-range value of science and/or technology investments, as
well as about the strategies for making them. These controversies are often fueled by
superficial impressions of the process linking the investments to measurable benefits.
The 1980 Report of the National Commission on Research, which stimulated the
creation of the Roundtable, focused on easing the adversarial relation between
government and research universities. It soon became clear that active industry
participation was also necessary for an effective dialogue, and industry leaders have
become an important part of the Roundtable.
I suggest now that the current challenge goes well beyond this original purpose.
We must not only remove wasteful adversarial or bureaucratic patterns of behavior, but
also design cost effective synergy into all national science, technology, and related
manpower development activities. Patterns of cooperation and communication must span
many sectors, including local government and states, small businesses and international
corporations, research universities and community colleges, as well as the major federal
agencies. The American public, as well as economic and political leaders, must
understand and value the scientific and technological vitality of this nation as strongly as
do its scientists and engineers.
The Roundtable is needed more than ever as a major force in building these
synergistic efforts. Whether, thirty years from now, U.S. industry has the technology
base and work-force it needs for world competitiveness, whether American universities1
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