Science funding and policy

A team of world-leading policy experts and clinicians analyse the changing role of the hospital across Europe.

A symposium titled "e;Serving Science and Society into the New Millennium: The Legacy and the Promise"e; was held at the National Academy of Sciences on May 21-22, 1997.

When science changes, how does public policy respond?

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.

Cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton tells battlefront stories from the global war being conducted through clicks, swipes, internet access, technical backdoors and massive espionage schemes.

This book explores software's pivotal role as the code that powers computers, mobile devices, the Internet, and social media.

Practitioners of policy analysis will better understand the tools of their trade, and the broader contexts in which analysis contributes.

In recent years the circumpolar region has emerged as the key to understanding global climate change.

How should the law deal with the challenges of advancing biotechnology?

Better public policies can make the road smoother for self-driving vehicles and the society that soon will depend on them.

A practical guide to optimising funding opportunities for establishing or consolidating a successful research career in science.

This volume describes a vision for the future of U.

Basic scientific research and technological development have had an enormous impact on innovation, economic growth, and social well-being.

This report reviews a variety of partnership programs in the United States, and finds that partnerships constitute a vital positive element of public policy, helping to address major challenges and opportunities at the nexus of science, technology, and economic growth.

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.

The Challenges and Opportunities for Education About Dual Use Issues in the Life Sciences workshop was held to engage the life sciences community on the particular security issues related to research with dual use potential.

Over the last two decades, computers have become omnipresent in daily life.

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.

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.

Despite intense political focus and debate for the past 10 years, Americans remain deeply worried about the availability and affordability of health care for themselves and their families.

Rapidly developing changes in technology, scientific knowledge, and domestic and international environmental issues force analysts to constantly reevaluate how public policy is coping.

A practical guide to optimising funding opportunities for establishing or consolidating a successful research career in science.

This report addresses a topic of recognized policy concern.

The political economy of research and innovation (R&I) is one of the central issues of the early twenty-first century.

After twenty-five years of preparation, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, is finally running its intensive scientific experiments into high-energy particle physics.

The National Academies Science, Technology, and Law Program convened three workshops focusing on specific aspects of OMB's "e;Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies.

In 2004, an ad hoc committee was charged with preparing this third report examining the most senior S&T appointments to federal government positions and updating the accompanying list of the most urgent S&T presidential appointments.

This volume looks at current and emerging technologies of war and some of the ethical issues surrounding their use.

A symposium titled "e;Serving Science and Society into the New Millennium: The Legacy and the Promise"e; was held at the National Academy of Sciences on May 21-22, 1997.

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) drives unprecedented change, Debiasing AI examines the vital intersection of technology, innovation, and sustainability.

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.

In Disaster Nationalism, Vivian Y.

This book develops a theoretical framework for examining and assessing the regulatory arrangements for medical products.

This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research.

When Speaker Newt Gingrich greeted Dr.

Biomedical advances have made it possible to identify and manipulate features of living organisms in useful waysleading to improvements in public health, agriculture, and other areas.

The concept of risk in global life has not been fully understood and explored and this book attempts to examine what it entails in the fast changing, interconnected and complex world.

In October 2007, the U.

This book is an everything-included approach to understanding drones, creating an organization around using unmanned aircraft, and outlining the process of safety to protect that program.

Proclaims the enjoyment of teaching, studying and learning outdoors via the inspirational stories of some remarkable people.

Innovation is everywhere.

Artificial intelligence has moved from the lab into everyday life and is now seemingly everywhere.

Assessing the legal and practical questions posed by the use of artificial intelligence in national security mattersThe increasing use of artificial intelligence poses challenges and opportunities for nearly all aspects of society, including the military and other elements of the national security establishment.

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Since 1959, the National Research Council (NRC), at the request of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has annually assembled panels of experts to assess the quality and effectiveness of the NIST measurements and standards laboratories.

The report on the EEEL presents an assessment of the Lab's four divisions.

The Challenges and Opportunities for Education About Dual Use Issues in the Life Sciences workshop was held to engage the life sciences community on the particular security issues related to research with dual use potential.

The seventh edition of this classic handbook on the policy process is fully updated, featuring new material on policy making amid local and global disruption, the contestable nature of modern policy advice, commissioning and contracting, public engagement and policy success and failure.