In his testimony before Congress earlier this month, Microsoft founder Bill Gates touched on a number topics that are critical to US competitiveness in the globalized, post-industrial knowledge economy. Of these, his remarks on the H1-B visa program were the most widely reported, but his less-heralded comments on the perilous state of US funding for science and engineering research were just as important, and even then they didn’t go nearly far enough.
Paying for Secrets: National Security Versus Tech Innovation
March 25, 2008