[ale] will R&D run dry?

[James P. Kinney III]

The American Physical Society is mirroring the warning from the
perspective of the dropping number of Americans pursuing PhD's in
physical sciences. The number of immigrant PhD students has plateaued,
the number of women PhD students has climbed ( a lot!) but overall the
number of PhD students who are going to stay in the US is declining. 

I would be perversely interested to see if there is a match up between
the the decline in science PhD's and the rise in MBA's.

On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 12:34, Jim wrote:
> Business Week is running a fascinating interview with Greg Blonder, a 
> long time researcher for Bell Labs, holder of more than 70 patents and 
> currently a venture capitalist. He says that the dot com revolution 
> diverted too much capital from long term research--in favor of short 
> term gains--and that eventually we will hit a wall on innovations. He 
> puts a lot of the blame on other venture cpitalists. But he says the 
> recent innovations we have had come from research done 15 and 20 years 
> ago. Equivalent R&D is not being done now. He says that if we don't 
> change this, China and India will become the technological leaders (with 
> a tilt towards India). It's fascinating--and scary--reading. What do you 
> think? Does he have a point?
> 
> The interview is here:
> 
> http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jul2002/sb2002072_0601.htm
> 
> 
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