Obama stresses need for investment in innovation, biomedical research
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Proclaiming that "this is our generation's Sputnik moment," President Barack Obama 25 January in his State of the Union address to Congress and Americans reiterated what he had said two years ago: the US needs to reach a level of R&D it has not seen since the height of the 1960s space race.