three to one. Its research laboratories in both industry and the uni- versities are second to none.
Where the United States falls on its face, he argues, is in quickly translating basic research into "products and processes for designing, manufacturing, marketing and distributing such products." Experience seems to bear this out. American scientists invented the transistor, but in 1953 West- ern Electric licensed the technology to Sony. The rest is history. In 1968, another
U.S. firm,...