Federally-funded research and development centers spend $17.8 billion in fiscal year 2011

The nation's 40 federally-funded research and development centers spent $17.8 billion on research and development in fiscal year 2011, according to a recent report from the National Science Foundation. More than $850 million of the total was supplied by funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/nsf...