Friday, September 13, 2002
The Southern Technology Council has issued a report on the state of research and development in the South. Thirteen Southern states and Puerto Rico have seen increases since the early 1970s in federally performed research and university-performed research.
But the South's share of national industry research and development is dropping. Industrial R&D, which accounts for about two-thirds of the total funding and three-quarters of the actual work, dropped in the South from a national market share of 8.8 percent in 1963 to 7.1 percent in 2000. The STC is a division of the Southern Growth Policies Board. You can download STC reports from their web site.
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R&D in the South
