Science funding & policy books

Develops a useful framework for thinking about the American approach to shaping and managing scientific innovation....  Read More >>

Develops a useful framework for thinking about the American approach to shaping and managing scientific innovation....  Read More >>

Now available in paperback following huge critical acclaim. In a frank, edgy and entertaining style that pulls no...  Read More >>

Janet Atkinson-Grosjean's Public Science, Private Interests is the first book-length study of NCEs, and offers an...  Read More >>

Now available in paperback following huge critical acclaim. In a frank, edgy and entertaining style that pulls no...  Read More >>

Many scientists today are working to retard the aging process in humans so as to increase both life expectancy and...  Read More >>

This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the many different issues related to the Sisyphean task of building...  Read More >>

In recent decades, government-funded technologies have produced radar, microwave ovens, modern cell phone systems,...  Read More >>

In recent decades, government-funded technologies have produced radar, microwave ovens, modern cell phone systems,...  Read More >>

The digital divide and the inequalities of the availability and deployment of Information and Communication Technologies...  Read More >>

Biology and politics have converged across the industrialized world. Debates about genetically modified organisms,...  Read More >>

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This timely book develops new integrated approaches to policy for science, technology, risk and the environment...  Read More >>

Leading economists present current research on the impact of public policy on the innovation process, highlighting...  Read More >>

Leading economists present current research on the impact of public policy on the innovation process, highlighting...  Read More >>

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Explains the urgent need to maintain both the originality and freedom of expression that is so vital to our economic...  Read More >>

Wilks provides a historical background, list of publications, and description of activities for most of the major...  Read More >>

This book re-examines the rationale for public policy, concluding that the prevailing `public knowledge’ model is...  Read More >>

This work is a practical discussion of stewardship and good giving experiences. Its special features include the...  Read More >>

Leading economists discuss how economic policy can stimulate technological innovation.  Read More >>

While the technological innovation and space exploration approach that McCurdy describes is still controversial,...  Read More >>

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How Jerry Wiesner, presidential science adviser and president of MIT, worked to make a better and safer world, as...  Read More >>