* "[T]he numbers of new doctorates in the sciences peaked in 1998 and then fell 5 percent the next year, a loss of more than 1,300 new scientists, according to the foundation. * "[T]he American share [of the Novel Prizes], after peaking from the 1960's through the 1990's, has fallen in the 2000's to about half, 51 percent. The rest went to Britain, Japan, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and New Zealand." * "The United States' share of its own industrial patents has fallen steadily over the decades and now stands at 52 percent." * "CHI Research, a consulting firm in Haddon Heights, N.J., found that researchers in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea now account for more than a quarter of all United States industrial patents awarded each year, generating revenue for their own countries and limiting it in the United States. 'It's not just lots of patents,' Francis Narin, CHI's president, said of the Asian rise. 'It's lots of good patents that have a high impact," as measured by how often subsequent patents cite them.'" * "[S]cientific papers by Americans peaked in 1992 and then fell roughly 10 percent, the National Science Foundation reports. . . . In a study last year, the [European] commission said Europe surpassed the United States in the mid-1990's as the world's largest producer of scientific literature." * "Physical Review, a series of top physics journals, recently tracked a reversal in which American papers, in two decades, fell from the most to a minority. Last year the total was just 29 percent, down from 61 percent in 1983." . . .
The rest of my posting is at <http://montages.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_montages_archive.html#108358618913735883>. -- Yoshie
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