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Policy Area

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Research

Short-Term

January 21, 2024

The Policy

The RPC will increase research & development spending to 3% of GDP, exceeding the OECD average.

The Research

Our Broader Stance on:

Scientific research is the main reason we continue to live longer, healthier lives than our ancestors and science has only increased it's impacts, positive and negative, on humanity over time.

Because we believe that evidence-based science creates the foundation upon which many of our policies rely it makes sense that we must also invest in the research and development of all the sciences that give us those insights, including social and theoretical sciences, not just applied sciences.

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