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- From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)
- Subject: Re: Justification for the Space Program
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.024127.8990@cs.rochester.edu>
- Organization: University of Rochester
- References: <20DEC199222321742@judy.uh.edu> <1992Dec21.163942.17983@cs.rocheste <1992Dec22.023353.10922@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:41:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.023353.10922@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> gcoleman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (George Coleman) writes:
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- >>for every dollar spent in space there is an estimated 7 dollar return in
- >> space spin offs.
- >
- >I have read this many times in nasa releases and every time it struck a sour
- >chord.
-
- If this is the study I am thinking of, it used the methodology of
- simply assuming that spending by NASA on R&D was as productive as
- private industrial R&D. No attempt was made to actually identify the
- spinoffs, or judge NASA's contribution to them. The more recent
- German study showing that space R&D is less effective at creating
- spinoffs than private R&D (as judged by patent citations) would tend
- to discredit this.
-
- I don't recall who did the study, but it got mentioned in this
- newsgroup some years ago... anyone remember?
-
- Paul F. Dietz
- dietz@cs.rochester.edu
-