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Cover title. ; "September 1985"--P. i. ; Shipping list no.: 85-1146-P. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Contents: Introduction. (Renn, Jürgen/Schoepflin, Urs/Wazeck, Milena/Wintergrün, Dirk: The classical image of science and the future of science policy.) I. The reflective stance (Renn, Jürgen: Challenges from the past. Innovative structures for science and the contributions of the history of science. - Elkana, Yehuda: Problem choice in science - reflections on the structures of research. - Mittelstrass, Jürgen: Transdisciplinarity - new structures in science. - Farmer, Paul: Social medicine and the challenge of bio-social research.) II. conditions for innovation (Menzel, Randolf: Striving for active research at the university. - McKelvey, Maureen: How innovation occurs: Incentives and institutional structures in interdisciplinary research. - Störmer, Horst: The bell labs - conditions for basic research at privately financed institutions.) III. Cooperation and mobility between and within institutions (Hoffmann, Hans Falk: New ways in international cooperation. - Jarlskog, Cecilia: New ways in international cooperation. - Grunwald, Reinhard: Mobility of researchers. - Baldwin, Wendy: Flexible adaptation of the NIH organization. Structure to take advantage of new opportunities.) IV. Building up new structures of evaluation and dissemination (Luce, Richard: The impact of new technologies on the structures of science. - Schlögl, Robert: Changing the structures of research - the perspective of an active scientist. - Brook, Richard: The role of evaluation as a tool for innovation in research.) V. The definition of new frontiers (Yan, Yixun: The impact of the new economy on basic research and our strategy. - Kaiserswerth, Matthias: The role of basic research: Private funding or how does IBM research work? - Rauchhaupt, Ulf von: Coping with a new age: The Max Planck Society and the challenge of space science in the early 1960s. - Crane, Gregory: From side-line to specialization: The rise of computional humanities.) VI. Rederecting research (Kirchhoff, Jochen: Rederecting research. Experiences in research policy from the Notgemeinschaft der deutschen Wissenschaft/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft during the 1920s. - Bienenstock, Arthur: U.S. science policy - some challenges. - Tent, Hendrik: New aspects in European research policy: The Fifth Framework Program. - Ganten, Detlev: New challenges facing German national research laboratories.) VII. The case of the Human Genome Project (Morgan, Michael: The Human Genome Project - new fields of research in global coope ...

This report focuses on basic research -- the experimental or theoretical work intended to advance science and engineering knowledge rather than develop a specific product or process. CED recommends policy reforms to ensure that tomorrow's basic research can be as productive and effective as possible. The recommendations address Congress' procedures for allocating funds for basic research, the central role of the research university and the individual scientific investigator, the critical importance of peer review, the need to sustain the pipeline of high-quality scientists and engineers for the long-term, and the implications of an increasingly global research enterprise.