claim: says "as a share of the us economy, the government’s support for research and development (r&d) has fallen by nearly two-thirds since the 1960s."
author: rush holt
evidence_1: in addition, in this century the industry share of support for basic research in ...  likewise, federal government support for academic r&d began falling in ...  although industry funds two-thirds of u.s. r&d, the majority of basic research is  conducted by .... from a high of about 2.9% of gdp in the early 1960s (after the  sputnik ...
evidence_2: rush holt · says "as a share of the us economy, the government's support for  research and development (r&d) has fallen by nearly two-thirds since the 1960s. ".
evidence_3: a clash is under way in washington, dc, between two starkly different visions for  the u.s. government's role in research and development (r&d). ... u.s. economy,  the government's support for r&d has fallen by nearly two-thirds since the 1960s,  i have little doubt that r&d will bear more than its share of these latest cuts.
evidence_4: dec 18, 2013 ... and it can support the work of the federal government by, for instance, ... 4  percent of gdp in 2010 and 2011 after the american recovery and ... as a whole  has fallen as a share of total federal spending since the 1960s. ... about two- thirds of federal investment for defense purposes was devoted to physical ...
evidence_5: sep 16, 2011 ... u.s. government's role in research and development (r&d). ... considering that,  as a share of the u.s. economy, the government's support for r&d has fallen by  nearly two-thirds since the 1960s, i have little doubt that r&d will bear more ...  with the budget control act, congress appears to have said,.