{"id":8064,"date":"2010-12-17T11:53:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T16:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8064"},"modified":"2010-12-17T12:43:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T17:43:29","slug":"just-the-facts-america-still-leads-the-world-in-rd-spending-by-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8064\/just-the-facts-america-still-leads-the-world-in-rd-spending-by-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Just the Facts:  America Still Leads the World in R&#038;D Spending &#8211; By Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battelle.org\/spotlight\/2011_rd.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Battelle Memorial Institute<\/a> reported that China will surpass Japan in 2011 as the second-largest spender on research and development, spending $154 billion to Japan&#8217;s $144 billion.\u00a0 An interesting milestone, perhaps, but that should be kept in its proper perspective.\u00a0 Specifically, that the United States still spends well over twice as much on R&amp;D &#8211; over $405 billion in 2011.\u00a0 That&#8217;s significantly more than China and Japan <em>combined<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t merely esoteric or trivial.\u00a0 To the contrary, it&#8217;s important to keep in mind at a time when naysayers here and around the globe question America&#8217;s continuing leadership role, and threaten to undermine American preeminence via regulations such as <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7833\/obamas-fcc-to-forcibly-impose-net-neutrality-internet-regulation\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221;<\/a> and other big-government &#8220;solutions&#8221; in search of imaginary problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the Battelle Memorial Institute reported that China will surpass Japan in 2011 as the second-largest spender on research and development, spending $154 billion to Japan&#8217;s $144 billion.\u00a0 An interesting milestone, perhaps, but that should be kept in its proper perspective.\u00a0 Specifically, that the United States still spends well over twice as much on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2191,135,19,1300,148,2189,2190,1404,394],"class_list":["post-8064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-battelle-memorial-institute","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-japan","tag-net-neutrality","tag-r-d","tag-research-and-development","tag-technology","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8066,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064\/revisions\/8066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}