Science and Technology Policy Research

Martin Meyer, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QE, England... 

Surya Mahdi, Paul Nightingale, and Frans Berkhout, A Review of the Impact of Regulation on the Chemical Industry, Executive Summary of the final report to the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, SPRU-Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, November 2002. 

Brooks, H. 1994. The relationship between science and technology policy. Research Policy. 25 477-486. 

Hank C. Jenkins-Smith is professor of public policy at the George H.W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A M University in College Station. He holds the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Chair of Business and Government at the Bush School. He was previously professor of political science and director of the Institute for Public Policy at the University of New Mexico. Professor Jenkins-Smith s areas of research include science and technology policy, environmental policy, public perceptions of environmental and technical risks, and national security policy. Professor Jenkins-Smith has written books on the public policy process and policy analysis and has served on a number of committees for the National Research Council. 

How do we inventory all relevant knowledge and coordinate the R D To start, the National Research Council (NRC) is really stepping in with the BCST at the front of it, and the newly reorganized Office of Science and Technology Policy is active, too. 

Levy, L., "National Science and Technology Policy-Needed Institutional Breakthroughs", Research Management (January 1977) 21-24. 

JOSEPH K. ALEXANDER, senior program officer, served previously as director of the Space Studies Board (1999-2005), deputy assistant administrator for science in the Environmental Protection Agency s Office of Research and Development (1994-1998), associate director of space sciences at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (1993-1994), and assistant associate administrator for space sciences and applications in the NASA Office of Space Science and Applications (1987-1993). Other positions have included deputy NASA chief scientist and senior policy analyst at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Mr. Alexander s own research work has been in radio astronomy and space physics. He received B.S. and M.A. degrees in physics from the College of William and Mary. 

This research was conducted within RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment (ISE), a unit of the RAND Corporation. The mission of ISE is to improve the development, operation, use, and protection of society s essential built and natural assets, and to enhance the related social assets of safety and security of individuals in transit and in their workplaces and communities. The ISE research portfolio encompasses research and analysis on a broad range of policy areas including homeland security, criminal justice, public safety, occupational safety, the environment, energy, natural resources, climate, agriculture, economic development, transportation, information and telecommunications technologies, space exploration, and other aspects of science and technology policy. 

Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR) (1997). Integrating the Nation s Environmental Monitoring and Research Networks and Programs A Proposed Framework. Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, DC. 

Dr. Frank Gottron, Specialist in Science and Technology Policy, Congressional Research Service... 

HERBERT I. FUSFELD is Director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy, New York University. A physicist, he received MA and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He has held the positions of Director of Research for the American Machine and Foundry Corporation and Director of Research, Kennecott Copper Corporation. His professional and government activities include membership on the U.S./U.S.S.R. Joint Commission for Scientific and Technical Cooperation the Advisory Committee on International Investment, Technology and Development, Department of State the Advisory Coimcil of the National Science Foundation and the Board on Science and Technology for International Development of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a former president of the Industrial Research Institute. 

The Govemment-University-Industry Research Roundtable, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine, was established in 1984 as an alternative to the traditional study commission approach to science and technology policy issues. The vision of all those involved in the initial concept was tha the Roundtable "could accomplish what present structures have been unable to do" in addressing major policy issues, problems, and opportunities in the research associations between universities and their principal partners, industry and government. 

Hempel, W., Sziraczky, G., Swahn, L., and Takacs, L. 2008. Analytical Paper Biomarkers Impact on Biomedical Research and Healthcare Case Reports Directorate for Science and Technology and Industry Committee for Science and Technological Policy. Biosystem International, Evry, France and Armus Corporation, California, United States, http //www.oecd.org/datao-ecd/48/3/41892771.pdf. 

Niels Mejlgaard M.Sc. in Political Science, Aarhus University, and Ph.D. in Development and Planning, Aalborg University. Senior researcher and director, the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Department of Political Science and Government, School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University. His research interests include science and technology policy, science governance, and public engagement in science and controversial technolo-... 

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