The issue focused on technology research and education. With technology research under attack, education research was put on the back burner. By 2012, research into education had dropped by 50 percent. "This study shows that technology research is under attack by states and global science funding agencies," says Frank van den Hoven, research director at the Science and Technology Policy Research Network in Utrecht, the Netherlands. "This is not just the scientific research community. Science education is under attack."

As technology research research gets harder