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ITRInews -- November 1998, No. 4
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IN THIS ISSUE OF ITRInews:

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SCIENCE AT STATE: THE ACADEMY STUDY. A recent National Research Council report advises the Secretary of State on how the Department could better include science, technology, and health (STH) issues in pursuing U.S. goals. Suggestions include: One of the undersecretaries (with a small staff) should lead consideration of STH issues. The Department needs additional clusters of STH competence to provide sustained attention to STH content in foreign policy issues. The Secretary should call for greater attention to STH elements of issues in foreign affairs and provide guidance to sources of STH expertise to Embassies and Department offices. The report also lists options for upgrading State STH personnel and for recruitment of outside experts. http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/sth/

WHAT RECESSION? The Japanese education ministry (MONBUSHO) is planning a $3 billion facility to house 1000 foreign graduate students and other international scientists on 20 acres in central Tokyo. If approved by the Diet, MITI will also use the facility for international collaborative research activities and STA for promoting S&T. Japan continues to pump money into science, technology and now international education to stimulate their economy. From the NSF/Tokyo e-letter; contact: kshinoha@nsf.gov

INTERNATIONAL R&D RATED BY U.S. PATENT DATA. "The New Innovators: Global Patenting Trends in Five Sectors" was released by the Department of Commerce Office of Technology Policy and the Council on Competitiveness in September 1998. It uses the U.S. patent database to make international comparisons of the trends in these results of R&D investments by major countries. Japan leads foreign holders of U.S. patents by a wide margin, followed by Germany, UK, Taiwan, and Korea. http://www.ta.doc.gov/reports/09111998.pdf

USAF EUROPEAN OFFICE SPONSORS U.S./RUSSIAN SATELLITE.

The European Office of the Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD) in London has organized a joint program with the Space Device Engineering Corporation in Moscow to develop a small satellite as a calibration instrument for ground-based imagery research. http://www.ehis.navy.mil/eurogram/sepoct98/index.htm

GREEN MANUFACTURING IN JAPAN. Ms. Diana Bauer, a Ph.D. candidate at Berkeley, spent the summer researching the intersection of industry and the environment in Japan. She found that at Fuji Xerox and Sony, the recycling and manufacturing activities are housed at the same location and parts recovered from the recycling facility were assembled into new products. There is also a home appliances recycling test facility-a joint project among Hitachi, Panasonic, Sony, Mitsubishi, and MITI-that focuses on demonstrations of recycling processes for refrigerators, air conditioners, televisions, and washing machines. See NSF/Tokyo Report #98-27 (October 17, 1998) http://www.twics.com/~nsftokyo/ssr98-27.html

FEATURED ORGANIZATIONS THIS MONTH

Loyola College operates educational programs in Belgium, Thailand, Chile, China, and Ukraine. Its International Technology Research Institute also monitors research abroad. It is one of over 50 Jesuit universities worldwide, some dating from the 1500s. There are also Loyolas in New Orleans, Chicago, and Los Angeles -- all named after St. Ignatius of Loyola. Georgetown University is perhaps best known in Washington. http://www.loyola.edu