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House Panel Tells NSF to Keep Eye on the Prize

JUN 23, 2006
Physics Today
Science : Last week, a House spending panel told the National Science Foundation to use some of its $6.02 billion “for innovation-inducement prizes ⦠of an appropriate scale.” It also gave NSF the green light to find potential backers for the prizes among high-tech companies and private foundations that share his concern about the health of the U.S. research enterprise.
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