U.S. Government Supports Innovative Technology

U.S. Government Supports Innovative Technology

Introduction

Today, the United States strive to achieve leadership in all areas of scientific knowledge, the strengthening of ties between basic sciences and national objectives, the development of an effective partnership between government, industry and academia, the training of scientists and engineers, particularly high-class America of the XXI century. All this is done against a background of increasing scientific and technological knowledge in the country (Block & Keller, 2011).

Discussion

With increasing international competition, the strategy of scientific and technological policy of the United States is undergoing radical restructuring. In order to ensure U.S. leadership in world science and technology and to overcome the growing foreign competition on the world and the domestic technology market is widely parted technological limits the doctrine of “shared responsibility” of the role of state and market in the NTP. Since the mid 90s, State equally with private capital (industry) is obliged to fund the creation of the modern civil technology that meets international standards and competitive in the domestic and world markets with Japan and Western Europe.

One of the main priorities of U.S. policy was the promotion of scientific and technological progress. Fundamental advances in knowledge are officially recognized as the basis for economic growth, because according to available in the U.S. is estimated at one dollar invested in R & D, we have $ 9 of GDP growth. In his message to Congress, “Science and technology: shaping the twenty-first century” in 1997, President Clinton declared: “Today we are moving in an age of technology, information and global competition.” The task of science and technology become vitally important for achieving national goals (Branscomb, 2003).

The role of the U.S. government is now focused on supporting advanced civilian technologies for future generations bearing the future of scientific and technological potential in the XXI century. This is a priority for the state of scientific and technological policy along with the large military-technical programs. The Clinton administration was based on the thesis that the state should complement the market because “the market is functioning better than in an institutional environment that determines the rules of free competition.” The two political parties of the United States today are developing approaches to ensuring broad public consensus on the practical guidelines for the allocation of public funds for research and development in priority areas for the national economy. Today we see a bipartisan unity ...