15.6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUDING COMMENTS
What follows are our opinions about investment in basic research. Readers may find them debatable, but we hope to stimulate their thinking on this subject.
In the United States, the largest and the most creative segment of the basic research enterprise resides at academic institutions (National Academy of Engineering, 1993).
We believe that both the public and Congress need to be educated about the importance of basic research and about the need for increased funding of this activity. In a democracy there is always some pressure to fund projects that would meet constituents' current needs. Basic research often has its payoffs years later and, at times, after the present constituents have died. It is important ...
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