ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 



The Committee are grateful to a number of people for their contributions of time, expertise and 

 commitment in assisting the Committee to understand the nature of science and technology in Western 

 Europe and in providing information and counsel in the drafting of the report. 



We wish especially to recognize Ambassador William Brock, former U.S. Trade Representative, and Mr. 

 Gilbert Fayl, Science Counselor for the Embassy of the European Communities in Washington, for their 

 extensive and invaluable briefings before the Committee. 



The report, including especially the appended background study, rests in large part on the generosity of a 

 large number of persons w^ho provided information and assessments on European science and technology, 

 as w^eU as its place in the larger scheme of economic and pohtical change in Europe. Many others gave freely 

 of their expertise to interpret and evaluate that change, adding perspective to our vievv^s of its influence on 

 the U.S. research base. 



Among those in Washington whose contributions have been most helpful and sustained have been Regine 

 Roy of the EC Embassy; John Boright, William McPherson and Andrew Reynolds of the U.S. Department of 

 State; Robin Caster of the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment; Thomas Ratchford and Sara Bowden of the 

 Office of Science and Technology Policy; Mark Lieberman and Susan Lipsky of the U.S. Department of 

 Commerce; Phihp Schambra, Gray Handley and Robert Eiss of the National Institutes of Health; and 

 Desmond Dinan of George Mason University. 



In Europe, the list is far too lengthy to offer adequate recognition in this space. We wish to note, however, 

 that senior science and technology officials throughout the EC, in the member state governments as weU as 

 in the EC Commission, have been extremely open, informative and helpful throughout the period of the 

 study. We would be remiss not to mention the steady support and assistance of Patrick Johnson and Thomas 

 Owens of the National Science Foundation office in Paris, or those of Patricia Haigh and Anthony Rock at 

 the U.S. Mission to the EC in Brussels. 



Many persons on the staff of the National Science Foundation provided assistance and expertise to this 

 undertaking, through their participation in Committee meetings and their comments on the earlier drafts of 

 the report. We especially wish to recognize several, however, whose commitment to the Committee's work 

 was invaluable and who provided the necessary administrative and logistical underpinning to see it to 

 completion: Karl WiUenbrock, Richard Ries, Robert Hardy, and WUliam Blanpied. Our special thanks go to 

 Richard Bradshaw, Executive Secretary to the Committee. 



This report was adopted by the National Science Board at its regular meeting on November 16, 1990. 



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