The President's
Scientists
" . . . [W]hile American industry was spending about $76
billion each year on research and development as of 1992, the
National Association of Manufacturers estimated that this same
industrial sector was spending $118 billion on outside
legal services. . . If we continue to pay roughly one and
one-half times as much on litigation as we do on the creation of
new wealth in American industry - in other words, research and
development - we are on a trajectory to economic disaster."1*
|
|
*
Italics in the original.
1 D. Allan Bromley
(1926-2005). The
President's Scientists: Reminiscences of a White House Science
Advisor (Yale University Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman
Memorial Lectures). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.
Rebuilding the Office of Science and Technology Policy, at 48.
2 D.
Allan Bromley. AAAS Science
and Technology Policy Yearbook 1999. Washington, DC:
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Chapter 10:
Science and the Law, at http://www.aaas.org/spp/yearbook/chap10.htm.
(Based on remarks made August 2, 1998 during the 1998 Annual
Meeting of the American Bar Association in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada.)
MK-BOOKS-20001213
|
|