Comments on: Google awards $420K in App Engine credits to science http://gigaom.com/2013/02/12/google-donates-420k-in-app-engine-credits-to-science/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Derrick Harris http://gigaom.com/2013/02/12/google-donates-420k-in-app-engine-credits-to-science/#comment-1311270 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:51:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=610181#comment-1311270 You make a fair point, although those stats are a little confusing. Overall R&D includes corporate R&D, while the amount states are donating to research universities is shrinking.

]]> By: realist50 http://gigaom.com/2013/02/12/google-donates-420k-in-app-engine-credits-to-science/#comment-1311201 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:08:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=610181#comment-1311201 * “is”, not “if”

]]> By: realist50 http://gigaom.com/2013/02/12/google-donates-420k-in-app-engine-credits-to-science/#comment-1311200 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:07:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=610181#comment-1311200 Inaccurate, weak throwaway line at the end. Note that the story to which you linked never actually cites a number for U.S. R&D expenditures.

See charts O-2 through O-4 of the NSF report quoted by the Chronicle of Higher Education – http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind12/figures.htm

U.S. R&D expenditures roughly doubled from 1996 to 2009, increasing slightly as a share of GDP and growing faster than inflation.

Also, per chart 4-4 at that same report, U.S. college and university R&D has been steadily increasing in constant (i.e., inflation-adjusted terms).

You should correct your original post – the reference to “ever-shrinking” research budgets if flat-out wrong.

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