Research and Development: March 2011 Archives

SpaceRef has obtained a report by four of Canada's ten largest space companies in which they are critical of the federal governments implementation of research and development (R&D) funding as outlined in the governments Science and Technology strategy "Mobilizing Science and Technology to Canada's Advantage." One of the reasons cited is that "the pendulum has swung too far away from direct funding for companies at the later stages of R&D toward more funding for universities to perform basic "public good" R&D in collaboration with the private sector."