

Innovation Deficit
Efforts and News Updates
MIT Releases Report on Effects of Declining Investment in Basic Research (April 27, 2015)
Bloomberg: Federal R&D Spending Cuts Seen Causing U.S. Innovation Deficit (May 21, 2015)
LA Times: Reduced Public Funding For Basic Science Leaves U.S. in the Science Dust (April 28, 2015)
Media Release: Closing the Innovation Deficit One Year Later: Some Progress But Much More Needed (July 31, 2014)
Huffington Post, op-ed by UT Austin Professor William Press and AAU President Hunter Rawlings: Why Science? An Unemotional Argument for Federal Investment in Research (June 20, 2014)
Scientific American, op-ed by APLU President Peter McPherson and AAU President Hunter Rawlings: FIRST Act Could Widen Nation's Innovation Deficit (May 21, 2014)
The Baltimore Sun, op-ed by UMD President Wallace Loh: Federal Funding Drives Innovation (April 29, 2014)
The National Interest: Closing America's Innovation Deficit (April 28, 2014)
National Interest, op-ed by former MIT President Susan Hockfield: Closing America's Innovation Deficit (April 28, 2014)