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Science and Technology Integration in Europe and Influences U.S. -European Cooperation
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The recent evolution of science and technology (S"T) poUcies and programs in Western Europe gives strong indications of a developingumbrella structure for S"T strategicplanning,research coordination and
resource development. The EC Commission is not the only locus of multilateral research and
research-related activities in Western Europe, but it is rapidlybecoming the largestsource of funding and adnriinistrative and planning resources for such cooperation.The principalcharacteristics of this evolving
organizationalparadigm are as foUow^s:
" multilateral S"T cooperationwithin the EC appears to be leadingto integrationof overall poUcymaking, strategicR"D planning and coordination of resource creation and allocation, strongly influenced and led by the EC Commission;
" all EC members support this cooperativeparadigm, to varying degrees,w^hUe the EC Connmission
assumes a growing but contentious role in stimulating,guiding and making it operational,
incorporatingit in the largermovement toward economic and pohticalintegration;
" the EC Commission is moving quickly to develop pohcies and activities to support international
cooperation in S"T; on several important topics,such as environmental protectionand global
warming, the EC represents the member states collectively in the international arena;
" the EC member nations' primary responsibUityfor research support, facilitiesand human resources
remains paramount; the EC superstructure is to be integrative, and supplementaryof member state S"T
undertakings;
" the evolving situation in Western Europe impliessignificantchallengesfacingUS decision-makers,
chiefly:1) obtainingan accurate, comprehensive assessment of European S"T integration; 2) resolving
differinginternal US government views about exercisingUS influence on that process; and 3)
allocating, or reallocating,resources among bilateral and multilateral cooperativeactivities;
NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD Committee on Europe in - Organizational Body
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English
2014
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