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Engineering Research and Innovation
Technological innovation provides the basis for U.S. productivity and economic growth, sustains our high standard of living, and helps to ensure our national security. The foundation for technological progress is derived from the opportunities and abilities to innovate and translate innovations into products and processes.
Effective development, application, and commercialization of new technologies are critical to our continued ability to compete internationally. For these reasons, a strong national investment in engineering research is essential to ensure that the fruits of scientific innovation are captured and put to work building a vigorous economy and improving our quality of life through the creation of advanced technologies.
As a national priority, AAES supports implementation of engineering, science, and technical policies designed as part of an overall economic strategy that nurtures scientific and engineering innovation to stimulate economic growth, create jobs, and promote U.S. competitiveness. Such policies should employ a systematic approach to encourage coordinated efforts by industry, government, academia, associations, and individuals to leverage resources and disseminate knowledge. Development and implementation of such policies requires a strong voice for technology at the Cabinet level, as well as close cooperation between the Executive Branch and Congress to minimize the inefficient priority-shifting and crisis-driven funding that frequently drives current policy. Bipartisan cooperation is needed to set R&D priorities based on national needs, with input from all stakeholders.
Policy Objectives
- Double
the federal investment in R&D
- Address
engineering research and technology as an integral
component of a comprehensive national competitiveness
policy that encompasses all related areas, including
capital formation and tax policy, economic and
trade policy, technology policy, education and
training, infrastructure investment, environment
and safety requirements, antitrust law, and
liability
- Maintain
a strong federal investment in research and
development targeted at national needs that
utilizes the synergistic relationship between
engineering and scientific research, and recognizes
that fundamental engineering and scientific
research may not lead immediately to new products
and processes, but to a deeper understanding
of natural and man-made world
- Encourage
private sector capital investments in research
and development through tax incentives, such
as a permanent research and experimentation
tax as well as by removing disincentives to
innovation through reasonable reforms of professional
and product liability la
- Encourage
private sector commercialization of federal
research and development to quickly return the
federal investment to the U.S. economy through
technology transfer, cooperative research agreements,
and personnel exchange efforts involving government,
industry, and academia
- Assist
efforts by the states to promote local economic
development through collaborations with federal
government, industry, universities, and non-governmental
organizations on science, engineering, and technology-related
policies and programs
- Support federal R&D programs to develop and utilize technologies that have civilian and national defense applications and/or which promote defense industry conversion and diversification efforts that strengthen our national industrial base
Society Statements
AAES
- AAES Speaks Out for the Research Community : 8/19/02
- Small Business Innovative Research Program : 8/19/02
- Federal R&E Tax Credit, EPPC : 8/19/02
- Biomedical Engineering Statement, EPPC : 8/19/02
- Federal Funding of Research and Development : 8/15/02
- Research and Experimentation Tax Credit : 8/15/02
- Aviation Infrastructure Research (PS 471) : 8/16/02
- Federal Incentives for Construction Innovation (PS 456) : 8/16/02
- Research and Development Tax Credits (PS 455) : 8/16/02
- Infrastructure Research and Innovation (PS 313) : 8/16/02
- Building Research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (PS 319) : 8/16/02
- National Science Foundation (PS 336) : 8/16/02
- Research in Civil Engineering (PS 187) : 8/16/02
- The Role of the Federal Government in Civil Engineering Research and Development (PS 444) : 8/16/02
- Surface Transportation Research Funding (PS 497) : 8/16/02
- DOD : 8/15/02
- Statement on the NSF Budget : 8/15/02
- S.2217, Endorsement of the Federal Research Investment Act : 8/14/02
- Department of Defense Research Funding : 8/14/02
- National Institute of Standards and Technology : 8/14/02
- National Science Foundation Budget : 8/14/02
- Maryland House Bill 7, Establishing the Maryland Science Engineering & Technology Development Corporation : 1/1/98
- Unified Statement on Research: "A Decade of Investment," : 8/14/02
- NY State Property Elimination of S&T Foundation & RD funding : 2/1/97
- Patent Reform Legislation : 8/14/02
- Views of the DOD Task Force on the DOC's FY 03 Budget Request : 8/14/02
- Response to NSF FY 03 Budget Request : 8/14/02
- Position Statement Urging Congress to Provide a 15% Increase for FY 03 NSF Funding : 8/14/02
- Funding Allocations for Programs Within the Office of Research and Development at EPA : 8/14/02
- Views on FY03 DOD Budget Request : 8/14/02
- National Security Research FY03 Funding : 8/14/02
- High Performance Materials : 8/15/02
- Federal Funding of R&D : 8/15/02
- Creating an Economic Environment for Technological Competitiveness : 8/13/02
- An Overall Approach to Intellectual Property Protection : 8/13/02
- World Intellectual Property Rights : 8/13/02
- Disclosure of Intellectual Property Assignment Agreements : 8/13/02
- Engineering Workforce Policy in the United States, 11/97 : 8/13/02
- Computer Industry Patents : 8/13/02
- The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Encryption Research Provisions : 8/13/02
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Notice-and-Takedown Provisions : 8/13/02
- Invention Rights for Employees : 8/13/02
- New Forms of Intellectual Property Protection : 8/13/02
- Protecting Databases from Unauthorized Distribution : 8/13/02
- University Intellectual Property Policy Guidelines : 8/13/02
- User Rights in Digital Copyright : 8/13/02
- Optimized Use of Federal Labs : 8/13/02
- Statement on Federal R&D Budget Reductions : 12/1/96