it not for the enthusiastic participation — which was 

 severely tested at times — by the U.S. members of the 

 Science Policy Working Group, most particularly its 

 former U.S. Chairman, Dr. David Z. Beckler, and of the 

 members of the Subgroup on R&D Planning and Management 

 who participated in the project's first phase (in 

 alphabetical order), Joseph Berliner, Lewis M. 

 Branscomb, Paul M. Cocks, Murray Feshbach, Richard T. 

 Gray, Herbert Levine, Franklin A. Long, Nat C. 

 Robertson, Lowell W. Steele, and Robert L. Stern. The 

 staff of the Arlington, Virginia office of SRI Interna- 

 tional assisted with the final editing and preparation 

 of the manuscript. Although these studies are not 

 official publications of the U.S. side of the working 

 group and only their authors are responsible for their 

 content, I wish to take this opportunity to thank all 

 those who assisted in their preparation. Financial 

 support for the project was provided through the 

 National Science Foundation. 



William D. Carey 



U.S. Chairman, U.S.-U.S.S.R. Working 

 Group on Science Policy 



June 1980 



-'■Until 1979 there were four subgroups of the 

 Science Policy Working Group : R&D Planning and Manage- 

 ment, R&D Financing, Training and Management of S&T 

 Manpower, and Systems for Stimulating the Development 

 of Fundamental Research. Other publications resulting 

 from the Working Group's efforts include Louvan E. 

 Nolting and Murray Feshbach, "R&D Employment in the 

 U.S.S.R.," Science , v. 207 (February 1, 1980), pp. 493- 

 503; and Systems for Stimulating the Development of 

 Fundamental Research (Report prepared by the U.S.- 

 U.S.S.R. Working Subgroup on Systems for Stimulating 

 the Development of Fundamental Research of the National 

 Academy of Sciences /National Research Council) , NTIS 

 Order Number PB80-162316. 



