Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable & Institute of Medicine 
Fateful Choices [PDF ebook] 
The Future of the U.S. Academic Research Enterprise

This volume describes a vision for the future of U.S. academic research and the near-term actions and policies required to maintain the quality of academic research in the United States. It also describes longer-term strategic considerations for the enterprise in the next century, concluding with a discussion of new approaches to decision making within the academic research enterprise.