Title : 
The higher education investment-profitable for Texas taxpayers
         
        
            Author : 
Castleman, Kenneth R.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Adv. Digital Imaging Res., League City, TX, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Each state government must determine how much of its annual budget to invest in higher education in general, and high-tech research and development in particular, much of which takes place in its flagship universities. A study of the situation in Texas shows that each dollar so invested returns more than five dollars for the citizens of the state
         
        
            Keywords : 
education; investment; research and development management; Texas; annual budget; flagship universities; high-tech research and development; higher education investment; state government; Agriculture; Business; Costs; Educational institutions; Educational products; Fuel economy; Investments; Power generation economics; Product development; Research and development;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Engineering Management for Applied Technology, 2001. EMAT 2001. Proceedings. 2nd International Workshop on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Austin, TX
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7695-1324-7
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/EMAT.2001.991313