An article in the New York Times points to a recent trend of the United States position of a leader in science and innovation as being eroded.
Europe and Asia are increasingly the locations of authors of the patents, and papers published in leading scientific papers. The number of PhDs is up in these regions. And the number of PhDs from these regions who are trained in the US, and then return is also up. Of course graduate admissions from this area are also down. All of this points to an area of significant concern about the role of science and technology in the future of the US.
A Gerogia Tech professors from Public Policy, Dana Hicks, is quoted prominently in the article.
Posted by lacey at May 3, 2004 08:16 AM