The regulation of science and technology / edited by Helen Lawton Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lawton Smith, Helen.

Series:

Studies in regulation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and state--Great Britain.

Science and state.

Technology and law.

Science and law.

Great Britain.

Technology and state--Great Britain.

Technology and state.

Science and law--Great Britain.

Technology and law--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

In the 1990's the ownership and control of information generated by British science base has been transformed by a combination of regulatory changes designed to promote "the creation of wealth." This topical book provides a unique set of perspectives on a different regulatory mechanisms set out to achieve this. The contributors draw on new data and analysis to give a critique of political, economic, ethical, technological, and geographical issues related to the allocation of resources to science and technology, the control and use of the information generated in the context, and the operation of regulatory agencies.

Contents:

1. The context for science and technology regulation / Helen Lawton Smith 3

2. The political economy of public science: a contribution to the regulation of science and technology / Paul A. David 33

3. Can basic science be valued? / John Mulvey 58

4. What higher educational system will there be to regulate? / Sir Douglas Hague 68

5. Can managed public science enhance wealth and quality of life? A process industries view / Richard C. Darton 85

III The International Context

6. The Evolution of European science and technology policy and its links to the cohesion agenda / David R. Charles 97

7. The creation of harmonised patent protection in Europe / Gerald Paterson 127

8. How has tax affected the changing cost of R&D? Evidence from eight countries / Nicholas Bloom, Lucy Chennells, Rachel Griffith, John Van Reenen 136

9. Reconstructing the local and global: Europeanisation, regulation and changing knowledge relations / Henry Rothstein, Alan Irwin 161

10. The globalisation of environmental and consumer protection regulation: resources and accountability / Erik Millstone 179

11. Science and technology in the defence industries: the growing influence of transnational industrial-governmental networks / John Lovering 201

12. The political economy of medicines regulation in Britain / John Abraham 221.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0333790456

0333714989

OCLC:

47225449