The science of science policy : a handbook / edited by Kaye Husbands Fealing ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fealing, Kaye Husbands.

Series:

Innovation and technology in the world economy.

Innovation and technology in the world economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and state--United States.

Science and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Business Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Basic scientific research and technological development have had an enormous impact on innovation, economic growth, and social well-being. Yet science policy debates have long been dominated by advocates for particular scientific fields or missions. In the absence of a deeper understanding of the changing framework in which innovation occurs, policymakers cannot predict how best to make and manage investments to exploit our most promising and important opportunities. Since 2005, a science of science policy has developed rapidly in response to policymakers' increased demands for b

Contents:

Why policy implementation needs a science of science policy / John H. Marburger III

Politics and the science of science policy / Harvey M. Sapolsky and Mark Zachary Taylor

Sociology and the science of science policy / Walter W. Powell, Jason Owen-Smith, and Laurel Smith-Doerr

The economics of science and technology policy / Richard B. Freeman

A situated cognition view of innovation with implications for innovation policy / John S. Gero

Technically focused policy analysis / M. Granger Morgan

Science of science and innovation policy : the emerging community of practice / Irwin Feller

Developing a science of innovation policy internationally / Fred Gault

Analysis of public research, industrial R&D, and commercial innovation : measurement issues underlying the science of science policy / Adam B. Jaffe

The current state of data on the science and engineering workforce, entrepreneurship, and innovation in the United States / E.J. Reedy, Michael S. Teitelbaum, and Robert E. Litan

Legacy and new databases for linking innovation to impact / Lynne Zucker and Michael Darby

A vision of data and analytics for the science of science policy / Jim Thomas and Susan Albers Mohrman

Science policy : a federal budgeting view / Kei Koizumi

The problem of political design in federal innovation organization / William B. Bonvillian

Science policy and the Congress / David Goldston

Institutional ecology and the social outcomes of scientific research / Daniel Sarewitz

Science policy in a complex world : lessons from the European experience / Janez Potočnik.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804781602

0804781605

OCLC:

740435887