It's quality that counts, not quantity.
Too much regulation has suffocated US innovation.
The problem is we are outsourcing.
Outsourcing.
America imports far too much from abroad. The money is sent overseas, and America’s segment keeps decreasing.
America needs to manufacture things in America one again.
In America.
Sorry scientists, your precious ‘research’ dollars are going to fund Obamacare subsidies.
Whack 1
Waddaya going to do?
Who was it that said "Necessity" is the mother of invention?
I think much of the research being done currently in the U.S. is of the junk science variety, whose only goal is to obtain further funding. Every half baked idea does not need to be tested in a multi million dollar experiment.
Now that's a crowd I trust. /s
College presidents are a conservative contrarians best friend.
What they like, I hate...and what they hate, I like.
(1) Why invest when we’re not willing to protect our investment? We let every nation have access to our technology for free.
(2) Our taxpayer investment in technology usually ends up creating overseas jobs.
(3) Colleges and universities already feel they have a blank check from the government. They go up to whatever they want and they know student loans will pick up the tab.
(4) Maybe colleges and universities should stick to what they know best — indoctrination of students to their liberal political beliefs and telling students there is no God.
Personally, I am not feeling they need a lot more of my money.
It takes hundreds of pages of regulatory paper work to be filed just to run a simple little biotech pilot study. How can innovation thrive in such an environment?
Our Ruling Class has made themselves and their cronies their top funding priorities. Next on the list are illegal aliens and homos. Scientists will have to wait their turn.
Wonder how much of the “research” has to do with green energy? Seems like a lot of money has been spent (wasted?) on green energy technologies.
Our high tech electronic companies do a pretty good job of keeping up and optimizing and shrinking. However, we don’t manufacture here in the States much.
We might be behind in medical research.
I assume it is true. those that subsist on grants are crying for more grants.
the part that is not at all true is that the 1979 DOE study spawned the shale gas and oil revolution.
the wells completed in that time with DOE funding were found to rely almost entirely on natural fracture porosity and permeability, which is a production enhancing natural feature, but not mandatory for commercial production.
decades of private enterprise and billions of private funds risked spawned the shale boom, not 6 guys with some grant money. hydraulic fracturing was around for over 30 years prior to that study. for a cup of coffee I or thousands of others could have explained that even though often naturally fractured but a low permeability rock, shale reservoirs require hydraulic fracturing to produce economically, basically what the 1979 DOE report states.
what did keep shale on the radar in the late 80s and early 90s was TAX breaks for exploration. about one in 2000 wells were diligently “studied” by DOE. these tax breaks expired, but by then private industry had it figured out vertically. once married with horizontal drilling technology of the late 90s and 2000s, it went nuts.
It's quality that counts, not quantity.
The last time I looked, the envirowackos and warmists who hate all that stuff are a higher priority than scientists.
“Innovation” does not come from a research grant. Back off and get out of the creative people’s way.
Moving manufacturing outside the U.S., meant that R & D would soon follow. What nincompoop didn’t see this coming?
You know folks, the lack of innovation could cost us our naton.
When you enemies have the top R & D, sooner or later they’ll eat your lunch.
Livestock don’t innovate.
Just to be clear, my comment was aimed at the people in the article, not at you :)
Both machines have i7 CPUs. My personal machine has 16 GB RAM. The laptop may have 8 GB or 16 GB...didn't check. My personal machine runs Windows 8.1 Pro OEM. The laptop has Windows 7 Enterprise. The point is that HOURS of my labor have been wasted waiting for this POS hardware. I found productive work to do in parallel, but would have wrapped up my work day much sooner with good equipment.
They, the scientists, vote democratic as they are taught to in college to be good little socialists, then whine when the socialist leaders they elected enact policies that stifle research and promote high taxes on businesses, forcing them to leave the country. They didn’t bite the hand that fed them, they whacked it off with a chainsaw..
Americans are getting lousy education. Americans do not seem to have much imagination anymore.
Couple that with indoctrination and regulation and you have a place that exists only. Do not look for much inspiration.
Why bother innovating when you can collect huge amounts of money making up global warming crap?