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Titolo: U.S. losing lead in science and engineering-study (Reuters)

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Am.
 U.S. losing lead in science and engineering-study
 
  Fri Jul 8, 3:55 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half a century of U.S. dominance in 
science and engineering may be slipping as America's share of graduates 
in these fields falls relative to Europe and developing nations such as 
China and India, a study released on Friday says.
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The study, written by Richard Freeman at the National Bureau of Economic 
Research in Washington, warned that changes in the global science and 
engineering job market may require a long period of adjustment for U.S. 
workers.
Moves by international companies to move jobs in information technology, 
high-tech manufacturing and research and development to low-income 
developing countries were just "harbingers" of that longer-term 
adjustment, Freeman said.
Urgent action was needed to ensure that slippage in science and 
engineering education and research, a bulwark of the U.S. productivity 
boom and resurgence during the 1990s, did not undermine America's global 
economic leadership, he added.
The United States has had a substantial lead in science and technology 
since World War II. With just 5 percent of the world's population, it 
employs almost a third of science and engineering researchers, accounts 
for 40 percent of research and development spending and publishes 35 
percent of science and engineering research papers.
Many of the world's top high-tech firms are American, and government 
spending on defense-related technology ensures the U.S. military's 
technological dominance on battlefields.
But the roots of this lead may be eroding, Freeman said.
Numbers of science and engineering graduates from European and Asian 
universities are soaring while new degrees in the United States have 
stagnated -- cutting its overall share.
In 2000, the paper said, 17 percent of university bachelor degrees in 
the U.S. were in science and engineering compared with a world average 
of 27 percent and 52 percent in China.
The picture among doctorates -- key to advanced scientific research -- 
was more striking. In 2001, universities in the European Union granted 
40 percent more science and engineering doctorates than the United 
States, with that figure expected to reach nearly 100 percent by about 
2010, the study showed.
The study said deteriorating opportunities and comparative wages for 
young science and engineering graduates has discouraged U.S. students 
from entering these fields, but not those born in other countries.
These trends are challenging the so-called North-South global economic 
divide, the paper said, by undermining a perceived rich-country 
advantage in high technology.
"Research and technological activity and production are moving where the 
people are, even when they are located in the low-wage South," Freeman 
wrote, citing a study saying some 10-15 percent of all U.S. jobs were 
"off-shorable."

nations such as China and India***, a study released on Friday says.
-Stefano

 -Stefano
Perche' tu pensi che vacche per le strade,  fogne all'aperto, e centri 
di ricerca non possano convivere?
Ma per chi ci abita, il benessere locale, dipende dalla proporzione tra 
le une e gli altri. 
Per noi la competizione dipende dalla loro produzione scientifica 
rispetto alla nostra. Siccome  siamo molti di meno, riteniamo che la 
loro sia alta.
Ma il nostro stile di vita e' venti volte migliore, almeno in materia di 
salari.
Capish?
Am.

tra le une e gli altri.
Se lo dici tu...
-Stefano

 *LOL*
E secondo te, come fa l'India ad essere una potenza nucleare?
Chiedendo centrifughe a Saddam, e uranio al Niger?
STRA-ROTFL.
Sei abissale, Tazzo...
Am.

 Sei abissale, Tazzo...
...disse il povero orando del Borneo... :)
-Stefano

 -Stefano
Orando nel Borneo, ti ci ritroverai presto tu, se incontri un 
bell'orango alfa...
STRA-ROTFL!
Am.

 bell'orango alfa...
...disse l'orango del Borneo... :)
-Stefano