美国政府和私人工商企业1996年在为科学研究开发方面的总投资平均每个美国人(包括儿童)负担600美元。这一年,美国每个科学家和工程研究人员平均得到的科研开发经费约3万美元。尽管美国科研开发经费数额不小,但其科研开发企业的现状令不少美国人担忧,充满了亟待解决的矛盾。 The total investment made by the U.S. government and private businesses in 1996 for scientific research and development averaged an average of 600 U.S. dollars for each American, including children. This year, every scientist and engineering researcher in the United States received an average of about 30,000 U.S. dollars in research and development. Although the amount of funding for scientific research and development in the United States is not small, the status quo of its research and development enterprises has caused many Americans' worries and is full of contradictions to be solved urgently.