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Originally Posted by aceventura3
If we started a list of scientific developments sponsored by governments and those privately funded, which list would be longer? Which list would prove to have had the greatest impact?
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I would say probably the government. In the upcoming FY 08 fiscal year alone, the federal government investment in medical, science and technology R&D is $143 billion....much in the form of grants to universities and the private sector.
http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/prel08p.htm
This has been the case historically. The US has been the leader in scientific advances since the industrial revolution in part because of the federal commitment to R&D.