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...Ronil Hira, a professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Working on everything from basic science to prototypes of new products, centralized labs produced landmarks like the transistor, and every major corporation had such incubators. That changed over the past 20 years, as businesses started to shift their R.-and-D. money away from basic science in centralized labs (they would rely on universities for that) and toward design-and-development work done elsewhere--closer to production sites, by private research companies and eventually overseas...
...more U.S. companies shift more resources to India and China--even legendary Bell Labs has a research center in Bangalore--some observers are worried about what it means for the U.S. economy. With companies able to tap into the best talent all over the world, "that's a plus because it adds to innovation," Hira says. But when growth abroad is substituted for growth here, the U.S. loses the happy spillover of investing in research--all those new firms in Silicon Valley, around Austin, Texas, and along Boston's Route 128. If Bangalore and Beijing become the new cradles...
There, are, obviously, big differences between Wellesley and Harvard. But these are not insurmountable. Instead of using Lamont for testing, why not set up the Science Center as a final exam zone, allowing students to pick up exams and test in shifts in the large lecture halls? And if FAS decides it doesn’t trust undergraduates not to divulge information about the contents of final exams to others yet to take them, why not set up a slightly more rigid system in which each exam is still scheduled for a certain day, but students can choose to take...
...liberty” more than 40 times—and he charged America with the venerable task of ending tyranny worldwide. But just in case anyone was fooled, the following day, White House officials clarified that Bush’s speech was in no way meant to suggest a shift in policy but to clarify the existing “Bush doctrine of liberty...
...more U.S. companies shift more resources to India and China?even legendary Bell Labs has a research center in Bangalore?some observers are worried about what it means for the U.S. economy. With companies able to tap into the best talent all over the world, "that's a plus because it adds to innovation," Hira says. But when growth abroad is substituted for growth here, the U.S. loses the happy spillover of investing in research?all those new firms in Silicon Valley, around Austin, Texas, and along Boston's Route 128. If Bangalore and Beijing become the new cradles...