INNOVATION POLICIES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: Report of a Symposium by National Research Council of the National Academies

Author:National Research Council of the National Academies
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Engineering and Technology. Policy for Science and Technology
Publisher: NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Published: 2007-07-06T00:00:00+00:00

Cross-Border Comparisons of Attitudes, Programs

Dr. Wessner then posed three questions that, although quick in the asking, he judged likely to demand lengthy responses. He requested that Dr. Nicholson, whom he complemented on a superb presentation, discuss how the Canadian government had dealt with what sounded like charges that some of its innovation programs were vehicles for corporate welfare that funneled the majority of available funding to large companies. Referring to the STEP Board’s assessment of the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which was in progress, he described himself as having been heartened to hear that someone—in this case, Dr. Nicholson—shared his acquaintance with the difficulty of ascertaining the consequences of a single award for the future of a company.

He then asked Dr. Kotilainen whether he regarded the budget of the United States’ Advanced Technology Program, which had been running at around $140 million per year, as adequate to the U.S. economy in light of the fact that Finland, a nation with 5.1 million inhabitants to the United States’ 300 million, was spending between $530 million and $560 million annually on a very similar program.

Finally, Dr. Wessner said he had observed that while Europeans enthused over the creation of a European research space and innovation system, they often had barely concluded when they began speaking about their own national programs. He asked Dr. Kuhlman to talk about those two elements in relation to one another, then very briefly to discuss the impact of the EU programs, a subject Americans were very interested in, and to assess whether innovation efforts in Europe are primarily driven at the EU or national level.

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