In June, he published a Plan for Science that promised "active government".
PAGE 18 Plan for Science Spending In his budget, President Bush will seek to spend more on bird flu and the physical sciences, but less for cancer research.
Similarly, Osborne's speech today in Cambridge stressed his aims to put the "long-term plan for science right at the heart of our long-term economic plan".
Q: According to the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution's master plan for science, "the revival of the great Islamic civilization" is "contingent upon all-out progress in science".
In 2004, the British government published a 10-year plan for science and innovation that calls to boost science spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2014.
He outlined the massive investment that has been poured into Japanese science over the past 5 years in the government's first basic plan for science and technology, which ended in 2000.
The plan for science and technology proposed by the Obama campaign, for example, calls for "comprehensive immigration reform that improves our visa programs to attract some of the world's most talented people to America" and supports an increase in the number of foreign scientists and technical people permitted to study, work, and stay in the United States.
TOKYO--A 1995 law that led to Japan's first ever 5-year plan for science and technology has helped boost spending and the number of scientists being trained, but it has been less successful in ensuring that the increased funding is well spent.
As part of his winning message of hope and change, the new president-elect touted an ambitious plan for science and technology that promised, among other things, to double research funding over 10 years and immediately reverse Bush Administration policies that have hobbled stem cell research and sidelined scientific expertise in key decisions.
A report commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ("China's Drive for 'Indigenous Innovation': A Web of Industrial Policies") examines a Chinese plan for science and technology from 2006 to 2020 that is "considered by many international technology companies to be a blueprint for technology theft on a scale the world has never seen before".
"The new chief scientist Alan Finkel outlined his vision for an ambitious, long-term planning for science, research and innovation," she said.
