Science, technology and innovation each represent a successively larger category of activities which are highly interdependent but distinct.

There are basically just two central questions regarding the organization and administration of science.

A characteristic of scientific research is that the intellectual issues with which it is concerned are seldom uniquely related to the purposes or ultimate use of the research.

Technological developments in the U.S. arise and evolve out of a multiplicity of decisions in industry, government and the marketplace.

Although science and technology have always played a prominent part in American Government, the present system of Government support for technical activities has grown up in a largely unplanned way as a series of responses to specific Governmental needs as they arose and were perceived through political and administrative processes.

Today and in the foreseeable future, a nation's prosperity and security depend upon the wisdom and timeliness of decisions made with respect to science and technology. The circumstances dictate that the best scientific and technical minds be consulted and that the results of their deliberations be conveyed promptly to the highest authority.

There are many difficulties of communication between the sub-groups within our culture―for example, between the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. But there are also ways in which they are becoming increasingly united, and most of this essay will be an effort to trace a few common themes and viewpoints derived from science which I see as increasingly pervading our culture as a whole.

Technoservice is a new model of production. It involves more value-added products and automated production technology.

A method for examining the convergence of expansions of wave functions for nearly free electrons is presented.