Science funding and policy

The Politics of Capitalist Transformation is the only book-length study of the highly protectionist Brazilian informatics policy from its origins in the early 1970s to the collapse of the market reserve in the early 1990s and its impact in subsequent decades.

The book shows one individual's (the author) experience of the world, through contacts with government officials and scholars in the Middle East and Asia, Europe and Latin America during the post-Second World War years up to the later 1960s; and then that individual's reflections and study during the succeeding decades, up to and including the first decade of the 21st century, concerning the future of the world and the critical choices that confront the world both in inter-state relations and in maintaining the security of the biosphere.

At the request of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR), Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, presents in this brief paper her views of the challenges of the 21st century for the science and engineering workforce.

In order for the United States to maintain the global leadership and competitiveness in science and technology that are critical to achieving national goals, we must invest in research, encourage innovation, and grow a strong and talented science and technology workforce.

The United States economy relies on the productivity, entrepreneurship, and creativity of its people.

Based on a series of regional meetings on university campuses with officials from the national security community and academic research institutions, this report identifies specific actions that should be taken to maintain a thriving scientific research environment in an era of heightened security concerns.

Resisting State Surveillance in the Digital Age provides an in-depth examination of the complexity and diversity of organised opposition to increasing state surveillance powers in the UK.

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Enlightened Zeal examines the fascinating history of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s involvement in scientific networks during the company’s two-hundred year chartered monopoly.

A groundbreaking and surprising look at contemporary censorship in ChinaAs authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be ineffective because they are easily thwarted and evaded by savvy Internet users.

Do no harm is Alex Schmidt's mantra throughout Deliberate Interventiona book that delves into how policy and design can work together to prevent harms in technology.

Many regulations issued by the U.

Designing a new digital social contract for our technological futureHigh technology presents a paradox.

As we witness a series of social, political, cultural, and economic changes/disruptions this book examines the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the way emerging technologies are impacting our lives and changing society.

Examines America's experience with a wide range of quarantine practices over the past 400 years and the political, economic, immigration, and public health considerations that have prompted success or failure within the evolving role of public health.

Since the 1970s there has been a serious gap between fundamental biological research and its clinical application.

This edited volume reports on the growing body of research in science communication training, and identifies best practices for communication training programs around the world.

The massive increase in digital information in the last decade has created new requirements for institutional and technological structures and workforce skills.

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Competition policy-encompassing cartels, monopolies, mergers and state aid-is a hallmark of the European Union (EU).

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the nation's primary resource for advancing scientific research, development, and evaluation on crime and crime control and the administration of justice in the United States.

Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.

This book completes a scientific life trilogy of books following on from the Hows (i.

To mark the opening of a study of Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) convened a symposium providing an overview of areas to be examined in the study and topics requiring further policy attention.

Over the past 25 years, the United States has made support for the spread of democracy to other nations an increasingly important element of its national security policy.

The Grant Writer's Handbook: How to Write a Research Proposal and Succeed provides useful and practical advice on all aspects of proposal writing, including developing proposal ideas, drafting the proposal, dealing with referees, and budgeting.

The report on the CSTL presents an assessment of the Lab's five divisions, coveringwhere appropriatehow well each division addresses national priorities, its impact and level of innovation, its technical merit, and its infrastructure.

An examination of nanotechnology as a lens through which to study contemporary democracy in both theory and practice.

This book is based on the assumption that great powers determine global politics and, in this instance, environmental politics.

A good research paper is more than just a clear, concise, scientific expose.

This book examines China's digital transformation and its complex policy landscape, offering fresh insights into how the world's second-largest economy navigates the challenges of governing its rapidly evolving digital sector.

Das Ziel dieses streitbaren Essays ist hoch gesteckt: Es geht um die Verteidigung der Idee und der Institution Universität als Stätte der freien Forschung und Lehre gegen die Anmaßungen einer vermeintlich progressiven Neuordnung der akademischen Ausbildung nach dem Bologna-Reformmodell.

This volume covers a wide spectrum of governance issues relating to small states in a global context.

A student''s guide to setting up and conducting environmental research projects, including how to analyze data and write research proposals.

Vital statistics, the records of birth and death, are a critical national information resource for understanding public health.

The EPA commissioned The National Academies to provide advice on the vexing question of whether and, if so, under what circumstances EPA should accept and consider intentional human dosing studies conducted by companies or other sources outside the agency (so-called third parties) to gather evidence relating to the risks of a chemical or the conditions under which exposure to it could be judged safe.

Two surveys of the National Science Foundation's Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) provide some of the most significant data available to understand research and development spending and policy in the United States.

In recent decades, advances in biomedical research have helped save orlengthen the lives of children around the world.

Modern science is big business.

Billions of people around the world lack internet access.

This collection of essays by Sheila Jasanoff explores how democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens.

The Office of Science and Technology (OST) of the U.

Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the United States explores the role and impact of students and scholars on US educational institutions and the US economy.

Science is the most reliable means available for understanding the world around us and our place in it.

The mission of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Physics Laboratory is to support U.

In October 2007, the U.

Psychoanalysis, Science and Power reexamines the current state of psychoanalysis and science and technology studies as they have been influenced by Robert Maxwell Young's work.

The explosive growth in information technology has ushered in unparalleled new opportunities for advancing public service.

Maintaining the capabilities of the nuclear weapons stockpile and performing the annual assessment for the stockpile's certification involves a wide range of processes, technologies, and expertise.