{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/s6603","title":42,"num":"\u00a7\u202f6603.","heading":"Sense of Congress on innovation acceleration research","text":"\u00a7\u202f6603.\nSense of Congress on innovation acceleration research\n(a)\nSense of Congress on support and promotion of innovation in the United States\nIt is the sense of Congress that each Federal research agency should strive to support and promote innovation in the United States through high-risk, high-reward basic research projects that\u2014\n(1) meet fundamental technological or scientific challenges;\n(2) involve multidisciplinary work; and\n(3) involve a high degree of novelty.\n(b)\nSense of Congress on setting annual funding goals for basic research\nIt is the sense of Congress that each Executive agency that funds research in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics should set a goal of allocating an appropriate percentage of the annual basic research budget of such agency to funding high-risk, high-reward basic research projects described in subsection (a).\n(c)\nDefinitions\nIn this section:\n(1)\nBasic research\nThe term \u201cbasic research\u201d has the meaning given such term in the Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A\u201311.\n(2)\nExecutive agency\nThe term \u201cExecutive agency\u201d has the meaning given such term in\nsection 105 of title 5","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t42/s6603.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s6603","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f6603."},{"t":"heading","text":"Sense of Congress on innovation acceleration research"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s6603/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Sense of Congress on support and promotion of innovation in the United States"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"It is the sense of Congress that each Federal research agency should strive to support and promote innovation in the United States through high-risk, high-reward basic research projects that\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s6603/a/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" meet fundamental technological or scientific challenges;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s6603/a/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" involve multidisciplinary work; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s6603/a/3","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(3)"},{"t":"content","text":" involve a high degree of novelty.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s6603/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Sense of Congress on setting annual funding goals for basic research"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"It is the sense of Congress that each Executive agency that funds research in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics should set a goal of allocating an appropriate percentage of the annual basic research budget of such agency to funding high-risk, high-reward basic research projects described in subsection (a).","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s6603/c","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(c)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Definitions"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"In this section:"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s6603/c/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Basic research"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"The term \u201cbasic research\u201d has the meaning given such term in the Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A\u201311.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s6603/c/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Executive agency"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"The term \u201cExecutive agency\u201d has the meaning given such term in ","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"section 105 of title 5","href":"/us/usc/t5/s105","tail":"."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}