By maintaining a substantial investment in basic research, we invest in ourselves and in our future.
So far, it appears that scientists who start companies don't lose interest in basic research.
We invented amazing scientific technologies and medical breakthroughs because we invested in basic research and science.
And that requires investments. (Applause.) That requires investments in basic research and basic science.
Government has invested in basic research that led to new crop yields for farmers and the Internet.
President Obama referenced computer chips and the Internet as having been enabled by government investment in basic research.
Last year, we made the largest investment in basic research funding in history.
We can expect more of this as China prepares to challenge America, Japan and other advanced countries in basic research.
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But numerous academic studies have shown that this policy promotes societal good because absent this incentive, firms would under-invest in basic research.
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Most companies, especially young ones, cannot afford to invest in basic research.
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And we also want to make sure that we keep our scientific edge, and that means we've got to invest in basic research.
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Investment in basic research, through our universities and research institutions, that yields licensable technologies, is a more prudent path for the allocation of public resources.
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As a novel, global data source Argo has also become a central element in operational oceanography and in basic research and has great value in education.
But because it's not always profitable for companies to invest in basic research, throughout our history our government has provided cutting- edge scientists and inventors with the support that they need.
We would not be able to invest in basic research that helped to create the Internet and helped to create GPS, and is our main comparative advantage in this 21st century economy.
We've also made the largest investment in basic research funding in American history, an investment that will spur not only new discoveries in energy, but breakthroughs in medicine, in science and technology.
We have also made the largest investment in basic research funding in American history an investment that will spur not only new discoveries in energy but breakthroughs in medicine, science and technology.
History shows that investment in basic research pays.
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When we invest in basic research that helps invent the Internet or GPS, that gives businesses then an opportunity to come in and take that new knowledge and create new businesses and create jobs for everybody.
Even beyond energy, from the National Institutes of Health to the National Science Foundation, this recovery act represents the biggest increase in basic research funding in the long history of America's noble endeavor to better understand our world.
So we have made the largest investment in research and development, in basic research and science, in our history, because that's going to determine whether we can compete with China and India and Germany over the long term.
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The Chinese have made little progress in either basic research or in advanced design in vital industries.
Congress and the Administration must act quickly and assertively to renew our investment in basic scientific research.
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Although there are encouraging signs, women are still under-represented in science whether in basic scientific research or at higher decision-making levels.
Masuoka's tale illustrates how Japan lost the semiconductor race with the U.S. in part by neglecting basic research in favor of applied work on established products.
But just as ignoring deficits would mortgage our future, failing to invest in our kids, in our infrastructure, in our basic research and clean energy, that would be mortgaging our future as well.
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And because our economic future depends on our leadership in the industries of the future, we are investing in basic applied research, and working to create the incentives to build a new clean energy economy.
In America the mix for funding basic research has shifted to one in which industry performs only around 15% of basic research work.
But we're not going to reduce the deficit by gutting education investments, gutting investments that we make in our infrastructure, gutting our investments in basic science and research that can lead to discoveries in clean energy or lead to discoveries in curing cancer.
If I could predict anything, there will not be a huge sudden personal robot breakthrough: instead, there will be decades in front of us of patient basic research in many countries by thousands of researchers, with unexpected, fascinating results.
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