As regards the creation of new knowledge, a wide range of public and private regulations now curb cooperation among research scientists in the industry, the academy, and government.

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That means attaining the knowledge required to get things done using both public and private sector resources.

FORBES: A Puerto Rican Citizen Goes to Washington

He traces the public and private debates, which were consistently and woefully uninformed by any real knowledge of the true costs entailed, from before independence in 1947 to the series of blasts that shook the world over half a century later.

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