ASTRA Update for TMS March 3, 2004

1. ASTRA Update for TMS March 3, 2004

2. What’s New With ASTRA? • Your Materials Today • The Issue (Funding) Drives the Agenda • Task Forces Now Activated • Agencies (4 Key Areas) • Media • CVD 04 Strategy • Membership Growth • Message(s)

3. Investing in America’s Innovation Future A presentation by the ASTRA Task Force on the Innovation Future The Alliance for Science & Technology Research in America • 1155 16th St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 202/872-6160 www.aboutastra.org

4. “I do not believe that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application.” — Heinrich Hertz, discoverer of radio waves

5. What is the “R” in R&D? • Research addresses basic properties and questions • 60% is funded by the Federal Government • 6% (or less) of industry R&D budget is for research • Most is performed at universities and national labs • Development applies research results to everyday problems and issues • 70% of R&D money in the private sector is for “D” • Much of the Federal “D” goes to DOD and Homeland Security

6. U.S. R&D Funding:Federal Dollars Declining as % of GDP Since 1980, U.S. GDP has nearly doubled From $6 trillion to $12 trillion … While federal investment in R&D in the physical & mathematical sciences and engineering has plummeted … — 37%

7. What’s Research done for Me lately? • Creating High-tech Jobs • Transistor/Silicon chip  Semiconductor Industry • Laser  Fiber Optics B  Wireless LAN • Spinoff companies! Example: MIT • 4,000 companies; 1.1 million employees • Annual world sales of $232 B • Raising productivity • Alan Greenspan: innovation spurred post-1995 productivity growth

8. What’s Research done for Me lately? • Makes life easier • Fast, compact & portable Computers • Cell Phones, MP3’s, and PDA’s • Internet, Web • Makes life healthier • Medical Technology (MRI’s to Genomics) • Makes us more secure • Remote Sensors and Detectors, UAV’s • Encryption • Night vision Goggles • Smart Weapons (Lasers & Global Positioning System)

9. 73 percent of the science papers cited by U.S. industry patents were public science -- CHI Newsletter, March 1997

10. Federal Support of Basic Research is Critical… • From Research to product: timeline in decades, not months =conflict with need for immediate ROI. • “Wall Street”/ Investment Community demand short term profitability. • Lasers developed in late 1940’s • Global Positioning System dates to 1930’s • Corporations invest primarily in applied research tied to next generation product development.

11. … But Federal Support is Declining

12. How Important is Physical Sciences Research? • Chemistry, Physics, Materials sciences • Nanotechnology • Semiconductor Mfg. • Health Sciences (e.g. Genomics, Bioinformatics, Imaging, Pharmaceuticals)

13. Physical Sciences & Engineering Funding: Flat! While Health Sciences Soar, 26 Other Disciplines Stagnate or Decline

14. & Decreasing as share of GDP

15. The U.S. Science Infrastructure is At Risk …

16. Other Countries Now Able to Build their Own Scientific Talent Pools … Thousands of PhD’s Others producing More PhDs, U.S. levels off

17. And Lead in Research … Other countries gaining larger share of physics publications, e.g. submissions to Physical Review Physical Review Submissions

18. And in Patent Applications ... Increasing numbers of Foreign applications for U.S. Patents: Thousands

19. The Question for 2010: Will the U.S. lead in new technologies, new industries, and high-value jobs — or will our competitors?

20. Q: What is Needed Now?A: Invest more in the physical & mathematical sciences and engineering in the US.

21. Students and Federal Funding Show High Correlation Federal R&D, $M , non-biomedical (constant 1996 dollars) Bachelor’s Degrees in Physical Sciences, Math, Engineering Dollars Students Mayo, Bruggeman, and Sargent (2002) Year Budget Data: Table D in National Patterns of Research and Development Resources: 2000 Data Update (NSF Pub 01-309), National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA. Also, the NIH Almanac (NIH Pub. 01-5), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2001. Student Data: Science and Engineering Degrees 1966-1998 (NSF Pub 01-325), National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, 2001. Pre-1966 data: Science and Engineering Degrees: 1950-80. A Source Book. Special Edition. National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, 1982. Students Follow the money

22. U.S. Competitiveness Relies on U.S. Innovation Numbers tell the story: we are falling behind: Percentage of students receiving degrees in all sciences, 1998

23. Increased Research investments will drive the next Innovation revolution • At least half of the economic growth in the past fifty years came from technological innovation • Innovation spurs New Technology, New Industries, and New High-Value Jobs

24. Federal Support of Scientific Research Has Made America Great • Lewis and Clark exporation, early 1800’s • Manhattan Project; WW II Victory • National Science Foundation Founded in 1950 • Putting a human on the Moon in the 1960s • Information Technology, PC’s, Internet 1980’s • Mapping the Human Genome in the 1990s • Nanotechnology in the next decade?

25. WHAT Congress Can Do?Increase the budgets for the physical & mathematical sciences at least 12% a year for next seven years • DOE Office of Science • NSF • K-12 Science/Math Education (DOEd) • NIST • DOD “R” accounts (6.1)

26. Take Away: Don’t Flat Line our Innovation Future!