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U.S. GENERAL-ACCOUNTING  OFFICE
   WASHINGTON, D.  C.  20548


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                   ELMER   B. STAATS
       COMPTROLLER GENERAL  OF THE UNITED STATES

       ROUND TABLE ON  SCIENCE AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
DUKE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE  SCHOOL,    HAM, NORTH CAROLINA

                   NOVEMBER  28, 1979


           CURRENT NATIONAL  ISSUES INVOLVING
                SCIENCE  AND TECHNOLOGY


     Nearly 18 years ago,  in an address to the annual meeting

of the Corporate Associates  of the American Institute of Physics

on New Knowledge  in Physics and the Economy, Peter Drucker

stated that:

          Scientific  research is no longer tangential
     to the economy;  it is at its dynamic core.  Con-
     versely, social  developments are no longer tangen-
     tial to scientific  research; they are a major
     determinant.

Today we face  the realities that amplify the full meaning of

Drucker's proposition.

     Since World War  II, science and technology have been  rec-

ognized as vitally  important to national defense and  as key

ingredients  to economic growth.  Economists agree that  there

is a high positive  correlation between science and  technology

and the economy.   However, we do not yet fully understand  the

linkages connecting  research, development, innovation,  and

productivity,  nor are we able to precisely measure  those

linkages.


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