经济合作与发展组织(OCDE)在其最近发表的《科学技术指南》中指出,该组织成员国的研究开发总开支在经过直至八十年代中期的持续加速增长之后增长速度已趋于缓慢。从1981到1985年,其年均增长率为6％,但到1986和1987年已下降到4％。更令人感到不安的是,欧共体在该组织的研究开发总开支中所占的比例也已缩小:欧共体12个成员国的国民生 In its recently published Science and Technology Guide, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OCDE) pointed out that the total R & D expenditures of its member countries have been slow to grow after sustained and accelerated growth until the mid-1980s. From 1981 to 1985, its average annual growth rate was 6%, but it dropped to 4% by 1986 and 1987. Even more disturbing is that the proportion of the EC in its total R & D expenditures has also been reduced: the National Health and Peoples of the 12 member states of the European Community