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Science 25 August 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5483, pp. 1274 - 1276
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5483.1274
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ECONOMICS:
Does Science Drive the Productivity Train?

David Malakoff

From the president on down, many are hailing science as the fuel for today's booming economy, and bigger research budgets are seen as essential to continued prosperity. But skeptics say the information technology revolution is overrated as a contributor to economic growth when compared to the truly society-shaking innovations of the past, such as electricity or the telephone. Even some science lobbyists worry that hitching basic research's star too closely to economic arguments could backfire, prompting legislators to take a firmer hand in guiding cash toward less risky projects that they believe will pay off big.

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