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- From: higgins@fnalo.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
- Newsgroups: sci.space,talk.politics.space
- Subject: 7-for-1 study (was Re: Justification for the Space Program)
- Date: 22 Dec 92 10:30:37 -0600
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- References: <20DEC199222321742@judy.uh.edu> <1992Dec21.163942.17983@cs.rocheste <1992Dec22.023353.10922@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Dec22.024127.8990@cs.rochester.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec22.024127.8990@cs.rochester.edu>, dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec22.023353.10922@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> gcoleman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (George Coleman) writes:
- >
- >>>for every dollar spent in space there is an estimated 7 dollar return in
- >>> space spin offs.
- >>
- > 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?
-
- The recent "seven-dollar" study (about 4 years old now) was done by
- Chapman and Associates under contract to NASA. Goldin cited it in
- his talk at the Indianapolis town meeting. I have a copy somewhere
- among my effects, but I haven't read it. :-(
-
- A summary of the German study *was* posted to sci.space in the past
- couple of months. Perhaps some enthusiastic archive jockey can
- retrieve it.
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