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Given the difficulty in obtaining funding sufficient to support the escalating costs of scientific research in both the United States and the United Kingdom, an enquiry into the management of science is both timely and useful. It is a subject that deserves wide discussion, not only among scientists, but also by those involved in setting national priorities and policies and by the lay public. For, although the public generally believes science is an arcane subject of interest only to the initiated, the support that scientific research receives from public sources requiries that it also be considered a public concern. Moreover, because scientific and technological resources comprise a significant national asset which affects a nation’s economic, industrial, social and military capabilities, the management or governance of this resource should be a matter of both public and policy concern.
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National Science Board, Science and Engineering Indicators — 1987 (Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1987) pp.256–8.
The arguments for federal support of scientific research were first made in Vannevar Bush, Science — The Endless Frontier, a report to President Franklin D. Roosevelt originally written in 1944 (reprinted Washington: National Science Foundation, 1980). For a discussion of the growth in federal support for scientific research during and after the war, see D.J. Kevles, The Physicists; The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America (New York: Vintage, 1971
and D. S. Greenberg, The Politics of Pure Science (New York: New American Library, 1970). W. A. McDougall, …the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (New York: Basic Books, 1985), discusses the role military security played in securing federal support for science in the postwar period.
Committee on Earth Sciences, Our Changing Planet: The FY 1990 Research Plan (Washington, 1989).
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Miller, R.B. (1991). The Management of Science in the 1990s: An American Perspective. In: Hague, D. (eds) The Management of Science. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21275-0_4
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