TY - JOUR AU - Voss, David AB - Government funding of science and technology in the United States often seems to be an amusement-park ride of fads and fancies. With captains of industry regularly pointing at Japanese under the collective American industrial bed, US policymakers deem it especially urgent to intone the formulas of competitiveness while paying lip-service to a range of critical technologies. A recent flavour of the month was high-definition television (HDTV), enabling viewers to enjoy Kojak repeats at higher resolution on bigger screens. The halls of the US Congress trembled with the hue and cry of politicians vowing not to let the Pacific Empire steal another high-tech march on Yankee ingenuity. TI - Materials Science: National talent needs initiative JF - Physics World DO - 10.1088/2058-7058/2/12/7 DA - 1989-12-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/iop-publishing/materials-science-national-talent-needs-initiative-4z1DhW3Yim SP - 10 VL - 2 IS - 12 DP - DeepDyve ER -