Science
Advisors to Presidents and Prime Ministers
A Brief History of the Carnegie Group's First Years, 1990-1992
THE CARNEGIE GROUP MEETING
MOUNT KISCO, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 21-23, 1991
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00-10:30 a.m. Opening remarks by participants
- Brief
description of the structure of our offices and activities
- Brief
listing of major areas of current emphasis
10:30-11:00
a.m. Coffee
11:00-12:30 p.m. Major concerns of the 1990s
- Funding
- Big
science/little science
- Megaprojects
- International
cooperation
- Conversion
of defense industry capabilities to commercial uses
12:30-2:00
p.m. Lunch
2:00-3:30 p.m. Education and manpower
- General
status: is supply adequate?
- Mobility:
national and international
- Perceived
brain drain problems
- Production
of technicians
3:30-4:00
p.m. Tea
4:00-5:30 p.m. Economic competitiveness
- Governmental
support of precompetitive technology
- Product
development in military and civilian sectors
- International
cooperation in precompetitive stages. How structured?
- Reciprocal
access to R&D facilities
- User
charges for research facilities?
- Taxation
policies re R&D
- How
to target areas of national importance
6:00
p.m. Preprandial drinks
7:00 p.m. Dinner
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:30-9:30 a.m. Interactions with developing countries
- What
are most important areas?
- What
opportunities for cooperation among the developed nations
in addressing these issues?
9:30-11:00
a.m. Problems of the environment
- What
are the major problem areas?
- How
are they addressed at national levels; at international levels?
- Special
problems of the LDCs
- Related
economic and social issues
11:00-12:30
p.m. Desirability of, and mechanisms for, future Carnegie Group
activity
- Are
further meetings desirable?
- How
should they be arranged?
- What
future agenda items?
- Importance
of full attendance
12:30
p.m. Lunch
THE CARNEGIE GROUP MEETING MOUNT KISCO, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 4-6,
1991 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00-10:30 a.m. Opening remarks by participants
- brief
listing of major areas of current emphasis
10:30-11:00 a.m. Coffee
11:00-1:00 p.m. International Partnerships in Research and Technology
- cooperation
vs.competition in space R&D; new opportunities
for E-W collaboration
- in
space exploration and environmental monitoring [Stewart]
- issues
in cooperation in other big science projects: SSC [Bromley],
fusion [Curien], genome
- mapping
(including bioethics [Stewart])cooperation in information
technology
-
relationships between Jesse, Sematech, and Japanese cooperative
projects and international
- initiative
- developing
an international framework (treaty or other agreement) to
provide long-term
- stability
for large-scale international S&T efforts
- exchange
of views on the OECD science ministerial meeting
1:00-2:30
p.m. Lunch
2:30-4:00 p.m. Implications of recent developments in Eastern
Europe for S&T policies and cooperation
- R&D
policy in a united Germany [Reisenhuber]
- changes
in the S&T organization, policies and programs in the
Soviet Union; the future
- status
and interrelationships of the Soviet and Republic Academies
[Osip'yan]
- significant
changes in S&T organization and policies in other Eastern
European countries
4:00-4:30
p.m. Tea
4:30-5:30 p.m. Continuation of discussion re Eastern Europe
- implications
for future needs, priorities, and modalities of E-W S&T
cooperation [Osip'yan]:
- in
basic science and graduate education
- n
applied research and development
- the
conversion of defense R&D capabilities to nonmilitary
objectives (both East and West)
- E-W
S&T cooperation in facilitating the transition to
market economies; S&T cooperation as part of E-W technical/economic
assistance [Pandolfi]
5:30-6:00
p.m. Environmental R&D and global climate change
- issues
and objectives of the Brazil conference [Bromley]
- need
for regional environmental R&D centers [Bromley]
6:30
p.m. Preprandial drinks
7:30 p.m. Dinner
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:30-9:45 a.m. North-South S&T cooperation
- bilateral
cooperation in S&T related to food supply and population
growth
- S&T
cooperation in development assistance programs (developing
N-S research networks, targeted R&D)
10:00-11:00
p.m. S&T manpower
- long-term
outlook [Stewart]
- international
mobility (including brain drain concerns N-S, E-W)
11:00-12:30
p.m. Questions concerning the future functioning of the Carnegie
Group
- objectives
(developing interpersonal relationships, information exchange
and mutual understanding, consensus, other)
- reporting
to heads of Economic Summit governments
- possible
short public note on the meetings
- future
agenda items and scheduling
- mode
of operation (advance preparation of issues and position papers,
follow-up, etc.)
- membership
and attendance
12:30
p.m. Lunch
THE CARNEGIE GROUP MEETING
LEEDS CASTLE, UNITED KINGDOM, May 22-24, 1992
SATURDAY, MAY 23
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00-10:30 a.m. Opening remarks by participants
10:30-11:00 a.m. Coffee
11:00-12:30 p.m. Global oceanic research [Stewart] Genetically
modified organisms [Stewart]
12:30-2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00-3:30 p.m. Large international facilities [Bromley] Human
genome research [Riesenhuber]
3:30-4:00 p.m. Tea
4:00-5:30 p.m. Space research [Curien] Assistance to the former
Soviet Union [Saltykov]
6:00 p.m. Preprandial drinks
7:00 p.m. Dinner
SUNDAY, MAY 24 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00-10:30 a.m. Patenting of cDNA fragments [Bromley] Election
of director of World Health Organization [Bromley]
10:30-11:00 a.m. Coffee
11:00-12:00 p.m. Funding of IIASA and its program direction Discussion
of next meeting
12:00 Noon Lunch
THE CARNEGIE GROUP MEETING
RAMBOUILLET, FRANCE, DECEMBER 3-6, 1992
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00-10:30 a.m. General Remarks by participants Megaprojects and
the OECD Megascience Forum [Waldegrave, Winegard]
10:30-11:00 a.m. Coffee
11:00-12:30 p.m. Human genome mapping and patenting issues [Bromley]
Bioethics [Reisenhuber]
12:30-2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00-3:30 p.m. Space [Curien] Assistance to FSU [Saltykov, Pandolfi]
3:30-4:00 p.m. Tea
4:00-5:30 p.m. Large multilateral programs [Mori] New channels
of cooperation [Fontana]
6:00 p.m. Preprandial drinks
7:00 p.m. Dinner
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00-10:30 a.m. GATT R&D subsidies [Bromley] Rio Earth Summit
preparations
10:30-11:00 a.m. Coffee
11:00-12:00 p.m. Intellectual property rights [Curien, Reisenhuber]
Discussion of future meetings
12:00 Noon Lunch
APPENDIX
C
DOCUMENTS FORWARDED TO CARNEGIE GROUP BY D. ALLAN BROMLEY, APRIL
4, 1992
Agenda--first meeting of Carnegie Group, February 21-23, 1991
Information Paper--President's Council of Advisors on Science
and Technology (PCAST) Information Paper--Federal Coordinating
Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (FCCSET) The Economics
of Long Term Global Climate Change (a working paper of the Domestic
Policy Council's Working Group on Global Climate Change)
- U.S.
Technology Policy--an OSTP document
- Gaining
New Ground--a report of a private sector group, the Council
on Competitiveness
- "Academic
Research and Industrial Innovation"--page proofs of a
paper by Professor Edwin Mansfield of the University of Pennsylvania
- Global
Stewardship--a brochure from the April 1990 White House
Conference on the Science and Economic Research Relating to
Global Change
- Our
Changing Planet--The U.S. Global Change Research Program
prepared by a FCCSET committee to accompany the president's
1992 budget
- Grand
Challenges: High Performance Computing and Communications--another
FCCSET report to accompany the president's 1992 budget
- By
the Year 2000--both long and short versions of yet a third
FCCSET report to accompany the president's 1992 budget
- Report
on National Biotechnology Policy--a President's Council
on Competitiveness report produced under OSTP chairmanship
- Translation
of Le Monde article on our Mt. Kisco meeting
MOUNT KISCO, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 22-24, 1991
D. Allan Bromley, USA, Science Advisor to President Bush and Director,
OSTP
Hubert Curien, France, Minister for Research and Technology
Wataru Mori, Japan, Cochairman of the Council for S&T
Yuriy A. Osip'yan, USSR, Vice President of the Soviet Academy
of Sciences and special advisor on science to President Gorbachev
Filippo Pandolfi, EC, Vice President of the EC Commission for
Science, Telecommunications, Research and Development
William Stewart, UK, Science Advisor to Prime Minister John Major
MOUNT KISCO, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 4-6, 1991
D. Allan Bromley, USA, Science Advisor to President Bush and Director,
OSTP
Hubert Curien, France, Minister for Research and Technology
Wataru Mori, Japan, Cochairman of the Council for S&T
Yuriy A. Osip'yan, USSR, Vice President of the Soviet Academy
of Sciences and special advisor on science to President Gorbachev
Filippo Pandolfi, EC, Vice President of the EC Commission for
Science, Telecommunications, Research and Development
Heinz Riesenhuber, Germany, Bundesminister fr Forschung
and Technologie
Antonio Ruberti, Italy, Ministero della Universit… e della
Ricerca Scientifica e Technologica
William Stewart, UK, Science Advisor to Prime Minister John Major
William Winegard, Canada, Minister for Science
LEEDS CASTLE, ENGLAND, MAY 22-24, 1992
D. Allan Bromley, USA, Science Advisor to President Bush and Director,
OSTP
Hubert Curien, France, Minister for Research and Technology
Wataru Mori, Japan, Cochairman of the Council for S&T
Yuriy A. Osip'yan, USSR, Vice President of the Soviet Academy
of Sciences and special advisor on science to President Gorbachev
Filippo Pandolfi, EC, Vice President of the EC Commission for
Science, Telecommunications, Research and Development
Heinz Riesenhuber, Germany, Bundesminister fr Forschung
and Technologie
Boris Saltykov, Russia, Minister for Science, Advanced Education
and Technological Policy
William Stewart, UK, Science Advisor to Prime Minister John Major
William Winegard, Canada, Minister for Science
RAMBOUILLET, FRANCE, DECEMBER 4-8, 1992
D. Allan Bromley, USA, Science Advisor to President Bush and Director,
OSTP
Hubert Curien, France, Minister for Research and Technology
Alessandro Fontana, Italy, Minister for Universities and Scientific
Research
Wataru Mori, Japan, Cochairman of the Council for S&T
Filippo Pandolfi, EC, Vice President of the EC Commission for
Science, Telecommunications, Research and Development
Heinz Riesenhuber, Germany, Bundesminister fr Forschung
and Technologie
William Waldegrave, UK, Minister for Science
William Winegard, Canada, Minister for Science
CAMBRIDGE, ONTARIO, CANADA, May 21-23, 1993
Umberto Colombo, Italy, Minister for University and Scientific
Research
FranÆois Fillon, France, Ministre de l'Enseignement sup‚rieure
et de la Recherche
John Gibbons, USA, Science Advisor to President Clinton and Director,
OSTP
Tom Hockin, Canada, Minister for Science and Minister of State,
Small Businesses and Tourism
Paul Kr™ger, Germany, Bundesminister f™r Forschung und Technologie
Wataru Mori, Japan, Cochairman of the Council for S&T
Antonio Ruberti, EC, Commissioner, Science, Research and Development
Boris G. Saltykov, USSR, Minister for Science, Higher Education
and Technology Policy
William Waldegrave, UK, Minister for Science
PETERSBURG (BONN), GERMANY, DECEMBER 4-6, 1993
Umberto Colombo, Italy, Minister for University and Scientific
Research
FranÆois Fillon, France, Ministre de l'Enseignement sup‚rieure
et de la Recherche
John Gibbons, USA, Science Advisor to President Clinton and Director,
OSTP
Paul Kr™ger, Germany, Bundesminister f™r Forschung und Technologie
John Manley, Canada, Minister for Science
Wataru Mori, Japan, Cochairman of the Council for S&T
Antonio Ruberti, EC, Commissioner, Science, Research and Development
Boris G. Saltykov, USSR, Minister for Science, Higher Education
and Technology Policy
William Waldegrave, UK, Minister for Science
HAKONE, JAPAN, JUNE 10-12, 1994
FranÆois Fillon, France, Ministre de l'Enseignement sup‚rieure
et de la Recherche
Jon Gerrard, Canada, Secretary of State for Science, Research
and Development
John Gibbons, USA, Science Advisor to President Clinton and Director,
OSTP
Paul Kr™ger, Germany, Bundesminister f™r Forschung und Technologie
Wataru Mori, Japan, Cochairman of the Council for S&T
Stefano Podestö, Italy, Minister for Universities and Scientific
and Technological Research
Antonio Ruberti, EC, Commissioner for Science, Research and Development
Boris G. Saltykov, USSR, Minister for Science, Higher Education
and Technology Policy
William Waldegrave, UK, Minister for Science
ROME, ITALY, DECEMBER 1-3, 1995
FranÆois d'Aubert, France, Undersecretary of State for Research,
Ministry of National Education, Higher Education, and Research
Jon Gerrard, Canada, Secretary of State for Science, Research
and Development
John Gibbons, USA, Science Advisor to President Clinton and Director,
OSTP
Ian Lang, UK, President of the Board of Trade and Industry
Wataru Mori, Japan, Cochairman of the Council for S&T
Jurgen R™ttgers, Germany, Federal Minister for Education, Science,
Research and Technology
Giorgio Salvini, Italy, Minister for Universities and Scientific
and Technological Research
Boris G. Saltykov, Russie, Minister of Science, Higher Education
and Technology Policy
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