Commonly known as the Bush report. "Why should Federal dollars be spent to support scientific research?"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references.

Science and society in years ahead / Frank Press -- Renewing the compact between science and government / Donald Stokes -- Posing the questions that science has not asked / Neal Lane -- New partnerships between government and industry / Graham R. Mitchell -- Vannevar Bush and the war agaisnt disease / Kenneth I. Shine -- Reinventing the research university / Kumar Patel -- McGovern lecture--Science and society : the troubled frontier / Sidney D. Drell -- The graduate education of scientists and engineers : mtyths, facts, and recommendations / Phillip A. Griffiths -- Political science and social problems : the next century / Neil J. Smelser -- Should the national laboratories exist in 2005? / Katherine Gillman -- Public funding of scientific research / Lewis M. Branscomb -- Procter Prize address--The soul of the scientist / Michael E. DeBakey -- Breakout groups: Must science be catastrrophe-driven? Science illiteracy. Experience with government-industry programs. basic research and American democracy : elitism and egalitarianism. Science and engineering indicators. Graduate and medical education. What can we learn from experience in other countries? The need for social science research. Small company R & D and the national research enterprise -- Strategic research in the social sciences / William Sims Bainbridge -- What can we learn from other countries / William A. Blanpied -- Graduate education / George Bugliarello -- Small business innovation, research & development / David P. Colvin -- Five tensions between science and democracy / David H. Guston -- Must science be catastrophe-driven? / Thomas F. Malone --Public understanding of science is NOT scientific literacy / Alan McGowan -- Challenges to the system for support of basic research / Richard A. Meserve -- Graduate and medical education : 2000 and beyond / Charles E. Putman -- Catastrophe-driven vs. what? / H. Guyford Stever.