Department set forth the following study purpose: The immediate objective of the project is to analyze the R&D expenditures of selected foreign countries during the past 3-5 years, to estimate current annual expenditures, and to project future expenditures for the next 3-5 years. The results of the project would provide the !tatistical underpinning for making assessments, within the Department or elsewhere in the US government, of foreign scientific capabilities. 3 It was subsequently decided that this project, because of the fragmentary nature of data pertaining to future R&D expenditures, would concentrate chiefly on presenting and analyzing the past experience of selected foreign nations in their allocation of resources to research and development, while estimates of current and future R&D expenditures would perforce be limited to tentative projections for several major countries.
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