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...numbers are real warnings," says Francis Narin, president of Computer Horizons, a consulting firm that did the patent study for the NSF. "We're in danger of losing our technological edge. We've gone soft." Herbert Wamsley, executive director of the Intellectual Property Owners, a trade group representing inventors, agrees. Says he: "The level of patenting is a sign of ) corporate virility. This is yet one more indication that America's technological leadership is slipping...
Professor of Economics Lawrence H. Summers was selected for the Alan T. Waterman Award, given annually to a promising young researcher in a scientific field supported by the NSF, said Thomas Ubois, executive officer for the NSF's National Science Board...
...winner can use the money in any way he wishes, in accordance with the grant policies of the NSF, Waterman Committee executive secretary Lois J. Hamaty said...
...award is going to an economist for the first time, the NSF action should be seen as "recognizing the legitimacy of economics as a real science," Ubois said. "Some people think social science is an oxymoron...
...expect [Summers'] future research will be ahallmark of excellence," NSF director Erich Blochsaid...