Comments on: The Ever Increasing R&D Budget http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3910 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Roger Pielke, Jr. http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3910&cpage=1#comment-5418 Roger Pielke, Jr. Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:39:42 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3910#comment-5418 Brian S.- Thanks for the comment, and sorry for the delayed response. I can understand why you might favor one tpye of R&D over another, but I don't understand why some R&D shouldn't count. After all, military R&D produced the weather radar, jet engine, GPS, and the internet. Can you explain why it shouldn't count as R&D? Thanks! Brian S.-

Thanks for the comment, and sorry for the delayed response.

I can understand why you might favor one tpye of R&D over another, but I don’t understand why some R&D shouldn’t count. After all, military R&D produced the weather radar, jet engine, GPS, and the internet. Can you explain why it shouldn’t count as R&D?

Thanks!

]]> By: David Bruggeman http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3910&cpage=1#comment-5417 David Bruggeman Sat, 12 Aug 2006 06:30:12 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3910#comment-5417 Elizabeth, You're asking in response to Roger's statement: "but what the R&D budget is meant for ... well, that would require asking "So what?" rather than "How much?" (on this point see Sarewitz PDF). And this is a question that the field of science and technology policy is uniquely suited to address." The entire field of science and technology policy - researchers, analysts and practitioners (as well as others that belong in this list) - is well suited to examine this question. But so are all citizens. "So what?" can lead to questions of what ought to be as well as questions of what is. We have no special standing on answering the former. Research is usually lacking or imprecise on answering the latter. But we can pick this up in Big Sky. Elizabeth,

You’re asking in response to Roger’s statement: “but what the R&D budget is meant for … well, that would require asking “So what?” rather than “How much?” (on this point see Sarewitz PDF). And this is a question that the field of science and technology policy is uniquely suited to address.”

The entire field of science and technology policy – researchers, analysts and practitioners (as well as others that belong in this list) – is well suited to examine this question. But so are all citizens. “So what?” can lead to questions of what ought to be as well as questions of what is. We have no special standing on answering the former. Research is usually lacking or imprecise on answering the latter.

But we can pick this up in Big Sky.

]]> By: elizabeth http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3910&cpage=1#comment-5416 elizabeth Sat, 12 Aug 2006 00:17:55 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3910#comment-5416 Hi Roger, Don't you mean to say, that, this is the field of science and technology policy -research-? Hi Roger,

Don’t you mean to say, that, this is the field of science and technology policy -research-?

]]> By: kevin v http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3910&cpage=1#comment-5415 kevin v Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:03:39 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3910#comment-5415 Brian - the relative trends between defense/non-defense haven't changed much, but where they have they favor non-defense. See the difference between NSF and DOD before and after about 1997 in this graph: http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/trres07s.pdf Brian – the relative trends between defense/non-defense haven’t changed much, but where they have they favor non-defense. See the difference between NSF and DOD before and after about 1997 in this graph: http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/trres07s.pdf

]]> By: Brian S. http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3910&cpage=1#comment-5414 Brian S. Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:38:39 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3910#comment-5414 Looks to me like your figures include military R&D. I don't think the aggregate of military and non-military is a very interesting or useful figure to focus on, especially when looking at trends over time that are affected be world events, not support for science. Your Sarewitz link appears to touch on this issue, but it's not the main point. Looks to me like your figures include military R&D. I don’t think the aggregate of military and non-military is a very interesting or useful figure to focus on, especially when looking at trends over time that are affected be world events, not support for science.

Your Sarewitz link appears to touch on this issue, but it’s not the main point.

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