URBANA — Among the challenges facing the U.S. "innovation ecosystem" are the ability to continually attract talented students and researchers and the lack of multiyear budget planning for federal funding agencies, like the National Science Foundation, said a former director of the agency Wednesday.
Science and engineering research is an "inherently long-term" investment, necessitating the need for not just an annual budget planning process, but planning five years out, said Subra Suresh, who was director of the National Science Foundation from 2010 to 2013.
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