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In This Issue of ITRInews
President Signs "NSF Doubling" Bill
OECD Data on International Funding of S&T
Contributions of China to U.S. S&T
U.S. Now Rated Number 1 in Global Competitiveness

Featured Organizations in International S&T:
Technology Transfer Clearinghouses and Sites

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At the ceremony, President Bush is flanked by Reps. Ralph Hall and Nick Smith.

President Signed "NSF Doubling" Bill on December 19 Just kidding; the White House insisted that the phrase "NSF Doubling" be removed from the bill.  Nevertheless, the President signed H.R. 4664 at a White House ceremony on December 19, which suggests that he will now actually propose significant increases in the NSF budget.  His first two budget requests had token increases.  This idea of setting a goal to double the NSF budget was originated by Sen. Phil Gramm in 1997, and has gradually gathered support in the Congress.  Senators Bond and Mikulski managed to get the Senate to approve the notion several years ago, and when Sherry Bohlert became House Science Committee chair, the House came around.  In the frantic closing days of the 107th Congress, this authorization bill was hammered into a consensus, a compromise with the White House was reached, and the bill was sent to the President on November 11, 2002.  The bill has a lot more management guidance for NSF in it than budget goals;  FYI has a nice summary of its provisions at http://www.aip.org/enews/fyi/2002/129.html  Of course, authorization bills like this one aren't worth much beyond political grandstanding unless future approprations bills implement their goals.  Stay tuned.  http://www.house.gov/science/press/107/107-317.htm

OECD International Comparisons of S&T Funding
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has compiled an encyclopedia of data in their Main Science and Technology Indicators.  This biannual publication provides a set of indicators that for OECD countries and seven non-member economies (China, Israel, Romania, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovenia,Chinese Taipei) in S&T.  The indicators cover the resources devoted to R&D, patent families, technology balance of payments and international trade in highly R&D-intensive industries. Also presented are the underlying economic series used to calculate these indicators. Series are presented for the last six years for which data are available.  The basic data is available annually on CD. http://www.oecd.org/EN/document/0,,EN-document-571-nodirectorate-no-1-3935-18,00.html If you'd like a little more flash, the AAAS has a dozen charts based on OECD data posted at http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/guiintl.htm

Contributions of China to U.S. S&T
The number of Chinese graduate research assistants contributing to the conduct of U.S. academic R&D has expanded over the past decade as the number of Chinese students earning a U.S. doctorate in S&E has increased (from 200 in 1986 to almost 3,000 in the peak year of 1996[5]). Although the number of Chinese doctoral recipients declined in 1997 and rose only slightly in 1998—an occurrence possibly due to the increased capacity for graduate education in China—more than 21,600 Chinese earned S&E doctorates at U.S. universities over the 1986-98 period.   More detailed data are available for the years 1988-96 from the National Science Foundation's Statistical Profiles of Foreign Doctoral Recipients in Science and Engineering: Plans to Stay in the United States. During this period, Chinese students earned 7.5 percent of all S&E doctorates in U.S. universities—16,550 of 219,643. The highest percentage of Chinese doctorates was in the natural sciences and engineering. Chinese students earned 13 percent of the physical science and 15 percent of the mathematics doctorates awarded from 1988-96.
http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/issuebrf/nsf01311/sib01311.htm
 

U.S. Now Rated Number 1 in Global Economic Competitiveness After years of trailing Finland, the  U.S. now leads competitiveness, according to the World Economic Forum.  The Forum publishes yearly competitiveness reports covering the major economies of the world. First published in 1979, the Global Competitiveness Report has become an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the comparative strengths and weaknesses of national economies. In recent years, the report has been produced in collaboration with Harvard University. This year's competitiveness rankings, profiles of the top five countries, and the executive summary of The Global Competitiveness Report 2002-2003 are now available.  http://www.weforum.org/site/homepublic.nsf/Content/Global+Competitiveness+Programme

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FEATURED ORGANIZATIONS THIS MONTH

International Technology Transfer Clearinghouses and Major Sites

International Technology Transfer Clearinghouse from DOD
The following links are directed to international government supported organizations that are interested in economic development through technology transfer. They provide information on how to make contact with individuals, business leaders, and government programs in their respective countries that can provide assistance in making appropriate contacts for technology transfer.
http://www.dtic.mil/techtransit/business/int.html

International Technology Transfer Clearinghouse from Canada
This is part of the Canadian Technology Network, which links federal and provincial government labs and agencies, universities, community colleges, industry associations, technology centres and economic development agencies. Together these organizations provide innovative Canadian companies with quick and personal access to expertise, advice and information about how to meet technology and related business challenges.
http://ctn.nrc.ca/intnat-e.html

U.S. Federal Technology Transfer Offices Clearinghouse from USDA
This guide links technology searchers to technology transfer offices or centers at Federal Laboratories and related sites, highlighting unique features at each site. It is arranged by Federal Department or Agency, then alphabetically by name. This guide is maintained by the Technology Transfer Information Center, National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ttic/guide.htm

U.N. Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology
APCTT is a United Nations regional institution under the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).  The Centre was established in 1977 in Bangalore, India. In 1993, the Centre moved to New Delhi, India. APCTT promotes transfer of technology to and from small- and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) in Asia and the Pacific.
http://www.apctt.org/

Robert C. Byrd National Technology Transfer Center
The NTTC will strengthen US industrial competitiveness by promoting the efficient identification, management, development and commercialization of marketable research and technologies.
http://www.nttc.edu/

Technology Transfer Society
Since 1975, the Technology Transfer Society (T2S) has been a not-for-profit professional organization dedicated to sharing methods, opportunities and schools of thought with the technology transfer community. The T2S publishes the Journal of Technology Transfer three times per year, our bi-monthly T'Squared newsletter, and the exhaustive Annual Proceedings of the Technology Transfer Society (500 pages of the latest strategies in tech transfer).
http://www.t2s.org/
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DATE	FEATURE ARTICLE	URL
Nov 02	President to Sign "NSF Doubling" Bill Today	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N47.html
Sept/Oct 02	U.S. High Technology Trade Surplus Disappears	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N46.html
Jul/Aug 02	U. S. Internet Growth Halts	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N45.html
Jun 02	U.S. Raises the Stakes in the Supercomputer Game;  Japan Raises that Raise	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N44.html
May 02	Double-Double in U.S. S&T Investments	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N43.html
Apr 02	Japanese Lap the U.S. in the Supercomputer Race	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N42.html
Mar 02	Criteria for Basic Research Performance	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N41.html
Feb 02	Internet Growth Slows	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N40.html
Dec 01 /Jan 02	Japan Ups S&T Paper Quality and Quantity as U. S. Declines	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N39.html
Nov 01	Marburger Shakes Up OSTP	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N38.html
Oct 01	Impact of Terrorism on R&D	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N37.html
Sep 01	US Technologies Lead;  US Technologists Lag	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N36.html
Aug 01	Doctors of Economic Warfare	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N35.html
Jul 01	Marburger to be OSTP Director	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N34.html
Jun 01	Nano is Huge, and Getting Bigger	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N33.html
May 01	R&D Budget Crash	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N32.html
Apr 01	As DotComs Wilt, Internet Sprouts	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N31.html
Mar 01	Research Famines: FY2002 Budgets	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews30.html
Feb 01	Sherwood Boehlert:  New Science Committee Chair	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews29.html
Jan 01	Andreessen's Law for the Internet	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews28.html
Dec 00	S&T Policy of the Bush Administration	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews27.html
Nov 00	Research Feasts: FY2001 Budgets	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews26.html
Oct 00	Gingrich Praises Clinton	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews25.html
Sep 00	Industry Leads U.S. R&D	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews24.html
Aug 00  (Extra)	Americans Like Being No. 1  and Want to Keep It That Way	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews23.html
Aug 00	Pale Green Manufacturing:  US is 3rd out of 3	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews22.html
Jul 00	Science and Engineering Indicators 2000 Released by NSF	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews21.html
Jun 00	American Leadership of S&T: Reality or Myth?	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews20.html
May 00	Think That Government is Investing More in Research? Think Again.	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews19.html
Apr 00	Who's Getting U.S. Patents?	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews18.html
Mar 00	Bottom Line II: Trade Deficit Skyrocket Explodes	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews17.html
Feb 00	S&T: Ready for Prime Time?	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews16.html
Jan 00 /  Dec 99	New Technology Czar(ina)	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews15.html
Nov 99	Output in Papers: We're Number One?	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews14.html
Oct 99	Is International S&T Assessment Needed?	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews13.html
Sep 99	200GB Disk: 40 Films on One CD	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews12.html
Aug 99	Rep. George Brown Adjourns	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews11.html
Jul 99	More Good News / Bad News  from the Academy	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews10.html
Jun 99 /  May 99	Teraflops Computers Meet Gates' Law	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews9.html
Apr 99	GPRA Metastasizes Abroad	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews8.html
Mar 99	Who's On First?  (US, But Not for Long)	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews7.html
Feb 99	Who's the Bear, and Who's the Bull? Japan Doubles R&D; The US Cuts It	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews6.html
Jan 99 /  Dec 98	The Bottom Line:  US Trade Deficit Skyrockets	http://itri.loyola.edu/NEWS/ITRInews5.htm
Nov 98	NRC to State:  Ignoring S&T is Ignorant	http://itri.loyola.edu/NEWS/ITRInews4.htm
Oct 98	Is S&T to Blame for the Asian Financial Crisis?	http://itri.loyola.edu/NEWS/ITRInews3.htm
Sep 98	The Y1.998K Problem: Y2K Arrives 0.002K Early. Markets Crash, PMs Fired, Orioles 31 Games Behind	http://itri.loyola.edu/NEWS/ITRInews2.htm
Aug 98	Left Hand/Right Hand: NSF and NAS Both Assess US Math Research	http://itri.loyola.edu/NEWS/ITRInews1.htm