Foster Innovation through Research and Technology
Strong support for chemistry and other R&D is central to our nation鈥檚 global competitiveness, productivity, defense, public health, energy security, and environmental progress. Although the engines of innovation are largely in private hands, the federal government provides a significant majority of all support for basic research. This investment fosters new knowledge, industrial innovation, and the training of future scientists and engineers.聽 Government plays a key role in fostering a healthy climate for innovation through tax policy, international standards, intellectual property, and other incentives
ACS supports efforts to
- Promote sustained federal investments in R&D, science infrastructure, and industrial innovation to enhance U.S. global competitiveness.
- Accelerate the development and commercialization of new technologies that promote national goals in
- 聽energy independence,聽
- environmental sustainability,
- 聽national and homeland security,聽
- human health, and聽
- associated science and technology jobs.
- Foster U.S. tax, trade, economic, and regulatory policies that improve the competitiveness of U.S. entrepreneurs and companies.
- Strengthen the ability of worldwide legal systems to cooperatively encourage innovation through intellectual property protection.