Center for Policy Alternatives

The Center for Policy Alternatives at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under contract to the EPA, observed that regulation may affect industry in areas such as profitability, growth, imports, exports, employment and technological innovation.(3 From the Coatings and Resins perspective, direct impacts on innovation have had a cascading effect on the other areas with the exception of direct employment costs associated with compliance. 

Anon. "Supporting Innovation A Policy Study", Center for Policy Alternatives, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (September, 1980). 

GEORGE HEATON (Law) is a Research Associate at the MIT Center for Policy Alternatives. 

CHRISTOPHER T. HILL (Chemical Engineering) is a Senior Research Associate at the MIT Center for Policy Alternatives. He has worked for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, Washington University in St. Louis, and Uniroyal, Inc. 

Since that time, some important work has been concluded. In early 1979, as part of the Domestic Policy Review on Industrial Innovation undertaken by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the MIT Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA) undertook a systematic structuring of the effects of environmental/ safety regulation on innovation, citing support for different effects from the existing work. (3)... 

U.S. chemical industry, undertaken for the National Science Foundation (Grant No. PRA76-21368) by the Center for Policy Alternatives at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Interested readers may wish to consult the full report. (1)... 

See N.A. Ashford, D. Hattis, G.R. Heaton, A. Jaffe, S. Owen, and W.C. Priest, Environmental/Safety Regulation and Technological Change in the U.S. Chemical Industry, Report to the National Science Foundation by the Center for Policy Alternatives, MIT, March 1979. 

NICHOLAS A. ASHFORD (Chemistry, Law) is Assistant Director of the MIT Center for Policy Alternatives. He has worked at the ITT Research Institute, serves as the Chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health, and is a consultant to several regulatory agencies. 

M.I.T. Center For Policy Alternatives, "Government Involvement in the Innovation Process," 59-68, Office of Technology Assessment Washington, 1978. 

Another goal we had was to bring the most up-to-date knowledge available on industrial innovation to bear on the DPR process. To this end, a series of state-of-the-art papers were prepared by the MIT Center for Policy Alternatives under the direction of Herb Holloman — soon to be published in book form — and distributed to the eidvlsory subcommittees and the government task forces. Another set of state-of-the-art policy papers was prepared by MSP and similarly distributed. 

TABLE 3-1 Assumptions Used by Occupational Safety and Health Administration for Center for Policy Alternatives Model and Committee s Evaluation... 

Ashford, N.A., R.D. Gecht, D.B. Hattis, and J.I. Katz. 1977. The Effects of OSHA Medical Removal Protection on Labor Costs of Selected Lead Industries. CPA Report No. CPA-77/11. NnS PB-278653. Center for Policy Alternatives, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. 

Center for Policy Alternatives, Future Directions for Engineering Education System Response to a Changing World (Washington, DC ASFE, 1975), 85-86. 

Center for Policy Alternatives, Future Directions for Engineering Education, 32. 

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