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Self-Critical Public Science: How to Integrate Creativity and Responsibility
Basic science is rapidly becoming an endangered species. Nowadays, publicly funded scientists cannot easily separate it from applied science, let alone insulate it from questions about its broad...
What Factors Lead to Success on Research Collaboration: Some Tales from the Frontline
What are the strategies and motives for research collaborations? Are there differences between "cosmopolitan" and "local" collaborators? What leads to bad or "nightmare...
What If You Can't Measure What Matters? Public Value Mapping of Science and Innovation
Science and innovation policies are typically justified in terms of a broad range of public values (environmental quality, human health, national security, a skilled workforce, etc.). Yet when it...
Reinventing Climate Change
Climate policy is broken. A huge part of the problem is the way climate change and the policies intended to address it are framed and communicated. Pragmatic and tangible options for tackling...
Time to reassess the promise of nanotechnology? An analysis of research, developments and commercialization
Investment in Nanotechnology research is based on the promise of a transition to active nanotechnology, nanostructures, and nanodevices - everything from self-healing materials to molecular...
Delivering Practical Solutions on Urban Problems: Evidence-based Management
There are almost 90,000 units of local government in the United States. There is an extraordinary level of innovations unfolding in cities and counties, but little systematic analysis of these...
A Brave New (online) World: Emerging Technologies at the Intersection of Science, Policy, and Rapidly Changing Media Environments
We live in an age where new technologies hit the marketplace at a rate that far outpaces society's ability to engage in meaningful political debates about their ethical, legal, and political...
Societal Aspects of Synthetic Biology
Who should govern synthetic biology? What are the ethical dimensions and visions for its desirable futures? How could we facilitate better and closer collaboration and organization across the...
How Will Ingenuity Handle a Warming Planet?
Humans are altering the Earth system at every scale, up to and including the global climate. Going forward, how will human ingenuity handle a warming world? We're all familiar with the...
Bridging the Democracy Gap: World Wide Views on Climate and Energy
What percentage of scientists believe that climate change is occurring mostly because of human activity? What percentage of the US public believe otherwise? How do we bridge the gaps between...
From Nowhere to Nobels: Pathways to Success for Women in STEM
Women now hold more than half of all American jobs, but they still make up less than twenty-five percent of the science, technology, engineering, and math or STEM workforce. And the numbers are...
Eisenhower's Farewell Address at Fifty
President Eisenhower's address is mainly remembered for his warning of the perils of a "military-industrial complex." Less widely known, but no less important was his caution, a few...
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