ABSTRACT
Government research, and funding, is also changing. Some of this is due to economic cycles; much is due to shifting political priorities. In Europe, for example, the Lisbon Agenda defines the European Union’s desire to make Europe the most innovative economy in the world by 2009, and this drives their investment in research and development. In contrast, in the United States, despite a wide recognition that IT is driving economic advances, the major funding agencies (NSF, DARPA, NIST) have reduced their support for academic research in computer science-with a built-in assumption that private industry should and will take up the slack. Somewhere in the middle, many countries (e.g., Canada, Australia) have programs where academic researchers who are funded by private companies can apply to the government for matching funding.
