2006 Benchmarks of Our Innovation Future — Graphics Package

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1. Funding for Physical Sciences and Engineering Basic Research a Small Part of Federal R&D Portfolio
2. Defense Basic Research Has Remained Flat Despite Overall Growth in Defense Research, Development, Test and Evaluation
3. Emerging Economies Rapidly Increasing R&D Investments
4. Asian Countries Building their R&D Investments
5. Federal Investment in Physical Sciences and Engineering as Share of GDP in Significant Decline
6. U.S. Patent Applications: Fast-Growing Economies Gaining on U.S. Rapidly
7. S&E Publications: U.S. Already Passed by Western Europe, Asia Rapidly Closing
8. U.S. Advanced Technology Trade Deficit Deepens
9. High-Tech Industry Exports: U.S. Losing World Share
10. China Gaining Rapidly on U.S. in High-Tech Industry Output
11. U.S. Lags Many Countries in Broadband Penetration
12. U.S. Students Rank Poorly Compared to G8 and OECD Countries
13. Undergraduate Natural Science and Engineering Degrees: China on Rapid Ascent; U.S. Stagnant
14. U.S. Undergraduate Emphasis on Science and Engineering Small
15. Other Countries Educating Higher Proportion of Younger Generations
16. Asian Output of Ph.D.s on Rapid Rise, U.S. Number Flat, with Half Going to Foreigners
17. U.S. Graduate Institutions: Foreign Students Outnumber U.S. Students in Physical Science and Engineering
18. Trends in Federal Research, by Discipline, 1970-2005