This is a very nice report! I don't know if I agree with its optimistic conclusions that the United States is doing well in science and technology since the real issue for policy makers it whether it will continue to hold a competitive edge in the commercialization of new technological ideas over the next generation. That outcome may depend more on economic policy and more general institutions and policies than on science, technology and education policies. The report focuses on the science, technology and education indices and is relatively silent on the others.
However, there is a wealth of information in the report, and much of it is presented beautifully, aiding reader understanding.
I quote from the summary findings:
The United States accounts for 40 percent of total world R&D spending and 38 percent of patented new technology inventions by the industrialized nations of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), employs 37 percent (1.3 million)of OECD researchers (FTE), produces 35 percent, 49 percent, and 63 percent, respectively, of total world publications, citations, and highlycited publications, employs 70 percent of the world’s Nobel Prize winners and 66 percent of its most-cited individuals, and is the home to 75 percent of both the world’s top 20 and top 40 universities and 58 percent of the top 100.
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