[IP] Do we need more scientists?
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From: Tim Finin <finin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 5, 2004 8:56:48 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Do we need more scientists?
Peter Harsha's CRA Research Policy Blog
(http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/) has an entry on a
RAND report on the Science and Engineering workforce:
Thanks to Richard Jones at the American Institute of
Physics for pointing out this report put together by
RAND on The U.S. Scientific and Technical Workforce:
Improving Data for Decision making. The report is an
interesting collection of papers on the current
controversy surrounding the adequacy of the science
and engineering workforce and very relevant to
current questions about projected shortages in the IT
workforce specifically.
I'll have more to comment on this as I dig in to the
report, but I can say by way of preview that the most
notable paper appears to be Michael S. Teitlebaum's
chapter "Do We Need More Scientists?" Teitelbaum, a
demographer and program director at the Alfred
P. Sloan Foundation, argues that recent history is
littered with predictions of S&E workforce shortages
that have failed to appear and that any current claim
of shortage has to address how it's possible given
the relatively high levels of unemployment found in
certain S&E occupations and the lack of increasing
salaries.
... http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/ ...
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