McNicoll says, "it is hoped that the Business Motivation Programme will eventually create a bigger demand for scientists and technologists within companies".
Add to this the prediction (as expressed in the Science and Economic Indicators, 2004) of an increased demand for scientists and engineers and a flat domestic supply, and you have the makings of a national crisis.
A National Science Foundation study, Science & Engineering Indicators--2002 Indicators--2002 Indicators--2002hase will be an increased demand for scientists.
As a result, there is a steady and growing demand for scientists who can apply their technical expertise and strong analytical capabilities to policy issues.
Environmental issues, resource management, and the continual evolution of technology are all issues that aboriginal communities will need to address in the future and, consequently, there will always be a demand for well-trained aboriginal scientists and engineers.
Having such diversity of alternatives, there is a demand for information by research scientists without experience in HTS that need to choose the most suitable methodology or combination of platforms and to define their experimental designs to achieve their specific objectives.
THESE may be lean economic times, but there is brisk demand for scientists who work on military projects.
The rapidly increasing demand for scientists with appropriate interdisciplinary skills and knowledge, however, is not being reflected in the way undergraduate mathematics and biology courses are structured and taught in most colleges and universities nationwide.
Too often, according to Mr. Romer, government programs intended to encourage scientific research have simply handed money or tax breaks to universities and companies -- which mainly increases the demand for scientists and engineers without doing anything for the supply.
Events like September 11 and the increasing international demand for scientists are likely to imperil that supply.
With the aforementioned problems, coupled with expected retirements and the projected demand for scientists and engineers--one must ask is the US in trouble?
