For years, university administrators, corporations, and government agencies have been predicting an imminent and catastrophic shortage of scientists and engineers. But since there is little noticeable upward pressure on the salaries of scientists and engineers, and unemployment is as high in these fields as any other, these doomsayers are turning out to be wrong.
The statement 'The proportion of all research in science and engineering being carried out by corporations is larger than it was five years ago' would, if true, most strengthen the argument above.