80年代,科研对保证高度工业国家的国民经济在国际竞争中的能力显示的作用越来越大。一般讲,为此所付出的投资的增加要比国民生产总值的增加要快。在西德人门已及时地认识到增加这种投资的必要性。在这方面,西德无论在投入的资金规模还是它在国民生产总值中所占比例都在美国和日本之后,处于世界第三位。与此同时,在科研投资中政府所占比 In the 1980s, scientific research has played an increasingly important role in ensuring the national economy of highly industrialized countries in international competition. In general, the increase in investment for this purpose will be faster than the increase in the gross national product. In West Germany people have been promptly aware of the need to increase such investment. In this respect, West Germany ranks third in the world in terms of both the size of its investment and its share of GNP in the United States and Japan. At the same time, the share of government in research investment