Scientific and technological resources

It is accepted that governments have an obligation to serve broad national and international needs on complex environmental matters and act as clearing houses for ideas and programmes. Business, for its part, commands managerial and organisational abilities and can mobilise the scientific and technological resources required to solve these problems. 

Like capital, labor and many raw materials, scientific and technological capability must be thought of, nurtured and expended, like the valuable and limited national resource that it Is. There Is considerable evidence that this resource Is being used less effectively than It could be, due to a number of Imbalances In Its development and strategic deployment. To some extent, these Imbalances are the direct result of Federal actions to some extent, they result from reactions, in universities and In Industry, to Federal actions. BUT, TO A LARGE EXTENT, THEY APPEAR TO BE INDIRECT AND UNINTENDED RESULTS OF APPARENTLY UNRELATED FEDERAL GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND DECISIONS. Since World War II there have been a number of major shifts In the make-up of the national scientific and technological resource and In the way It has been allocated. 

The nation s universities and industries have drifted apart as the Federal government has Increased its Influence on the development and utilization of the nation s limited scientific and technological resources. 

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