The latest development occurred at a meeting last month of the country's top university adminisrators at Schloss Reisensburg in southern West Germany. Organized by psychologists Hans-Dieter Daniel and Rudolf Fisch from the University of Konstantz, it reflected the social science origins of studies on science indicators in this country.
The meeting took place during the same week that Heinz Riesenhuber, minister of research and technology, announced that federal R&D spending will reach $32 billion by the end of the year, an increase of 48 percent since 1981. The figure would place Ger many alongside Japan at the top of rankings that measure national support for science as a proportion of gross national product, he said, with Germany's 2.9 percent top ping the 2.8 percent in the United States and the 2.3 percent for Great Britain and France.
One study reported at Reisensburg came from Roswitha Sehringer, Peter Weingart and Matthias ...
