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Science, the Endless Frontier at 75

An influential policy document called Science, the Endless Frontier has provided the blueprint for public investment in scientific research in the United States for the past 75 years. Essays in the Winter 2020 Issues in Science and Technologyโ€”the first in a year-long series of articles on the anniversary of Science, the Endless Frontierโ€”reassess the legacy of this policy document and argue that the time has come to put science policy on a firmer footing in order to confront the challenges of the twenty-first century.

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    As any even casual student of American science and technology policy well knows, Science, the Endless Frontier is the 1945 policy document that articulates the dominant rational for the US governmentโ€™s investmentโ€ฆ Read More

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