"New NSF Survey Finds Six States Account for Nearly Half of State Agencies' R&D Expenditures"

Source: John E. Jankowski, National Science Foundation InfoBrief NSF 08-309, May 2008.

"Results of a new survey show that state agency expenditures for research and development and R&D facilities topped $1 billion in state fiscal year 2006. Expenditures of six states, Pennsylvania, California, New York, Michigan, Ohio, and Florida, accounted for 49% of all state-agency research and development. This InfoBrief presents summary statistics from that survey."

Comment: Of course, California and New York are big states, so the comparison is somewhat unfair. Still, it seems clear that Maryland, and indeed the area including Washington, Virginia and Maryland spends less than one might wish on research and development, especially as compared with California and New York. We may not develop economically as much as we desire in the future as a result. JAD