Funding academic research approaches

Much, though not all, of the scientific knowledge produced around the globe has traditionally been handled in this fashion. One thinks here of the scientific research performed by government research facilities or of academic research funded either by government or by private donors who wish the product of that research to be shared, free of charges as widely as possible, on a global basis. One occasionally sees proposals to apply this approach also to pharmaceutical research. Various models could be used to that end. 

In 1995 we developed an approach to reaching out to the scientific community and investing funds in particularly important problems where we can engage some of the top scientists in the country. About a quarter of the academic faculty involved in this meeting are currently funded by our Science To Achieve Results (STAR) program, which provides about 100 million a year in support of basic research directed toward specific problems. STAR-funded research supports a broad range of issues that will have important payoffs for our future approaches to dealing with environmental problems. Some of the STAR solicitations that have a chemistry emphasis include ... 

Industrial funding of academic activities is obviously a very important part of this discussion. Such funding can and should be aimed at both the teaching and research functions, though many different patterns can be used. One approach which Du Pont has found very successful is to direct its support to those fields of education which are directly related to our... 

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