§6603 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

Federal research agencies should promote innovation by funding risky basic research that could lead to big breakthroughs. These projects should solve major science or technology problems, bring together work from different fields, and be very original. Agencies that fund STEM research should aim to set aside an appropriate share of their yearly basic research budget for these projects. basic research — as defined in Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A–11. Executive agency — as defined in 5 U.S.C. 105.

Title 42, §6603

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(a)It is the sense of Congress that each Federal research agency should strive to support and promote innovation in the United States through high-risk, high-reward basic research projects that—

(1)meet fundamental technological or scientific challenges;

(2)involve multidisciplinary work; and

(3)involve a high degree of novelty.

(b)It is the sense of Congress that each Executive agency that funds research in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics should set a goal of allocating an appropriate percentage of the annual basic research budget of such agency to funding high-risk, high-reward basic research projects described in subsection (a).

(c)In this section:

(1)The term “basic research” has the meaning given such term in the Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A–11.

(2)The term “Executive agency” has the meaning given such term in section 105 of title 5.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the America COMPETES Act, also known as the America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act, and not as part of the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 which comprises this chapter.

Amendments

2017—Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 114–329 redesignated subsec. (d) as (c) and struck out former subsec. (c) which related to annual reports to Congress.

§6603 Sense of Congress on innovation acceleration research

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Title 42, §6603

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