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R&D Employment
The United States had more FTE scientists and engineers engaged in R& D in 1989 than did Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Sweden combined. (See appendix table 3-22.) In fact
the United States had twice as many R& D scientists and engineers as Japan and about five times as many as Germany. As a proportion of the labor force, however, Japan now has approximately the same
concentration of R& D scientists and engineers as does the United States. Japan's 1990 ratio of R& D scientists and engineers per 10,000 labor force--75.6--was exactly the same as the 1989 U.S. ratio.
(See figure 3-17.)
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