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Report of a Symposium
To mark the opening of a study of Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Pol...
Improving Indicators to Inform Policy
Since the 1950s, under congressional mandate, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) - through its National Center for Science and Engineering Sta...
The successful conclusion of the US-EU Agreement on Science and Technology Cooperation offers the prospect of a new chapter in transatlantic cooperati...
This report reviews a variety of partnership programs in the United States, and finds that partnerships constitute a vital positive element of public ...
Report of a Workshop
Sustaining the New Economy will require public policies that remain relevant to the rapid technological changes that characterize it. While data and i...
German-U.S. Innovation Policy: Summary of a Symposium
While nations have always competed for territory, mineral riches, water, and other physical assets, they compete most vigorously today for technology-...
U.S. Innovation Policy for the Global Economy
America's position as the source of much of the world's global innovation has been the foundation of its economic vitality and military power in the p...
U.S.-China Cooperation on Science, Technology, and Innovation
The global economy is characterized by increasing locational competition to attract the resources necessary to develop leading-edge technologies as dr...
Assessing Outcomes
This report examines the operations of the APT, reviews its extensive assessment program, and provides NRC Committee findings concerning the ATP's ope...
Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy
This report summarizes a workshopรขโฌ"Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making: Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollut...
Innovation Policies for the 21st Century: Report of a Symposium
Recognizing that innovation is the key to international competitiveness in the 21st century, policymakers around the world are seeking more effective ...
Summary of a Symposium
A committee under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), is conducting a study of selected state and regional p...
Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in comm...
Into the 21st Century
Mandated standards used for vehicle airbags, International Organization for Standards (ISO) standards adopted for photographic film, de facto standard...
Government-Industry Partnerships in Biotechnology and Information Technologies
This report addresses a topic of recognized policy concern. To capture the benefits of substantial U.S. investments in biomedical R&D, parallel invest...
Lessons from a Decade of Change: Report of a Symposium
Recognizing that a capacity to innovate and commercialize new high-technology products is increasingly a key for the economic growth in the environmen...
Changing Technologies and Evolving Policies: Report of a Symposium
This volume assembles papers commissioned by the National Research Council's Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) to inform judgme...
Global Best Practices: Report of a Symposium
Many nations are currently adopting a variety of directed strategies to launch and support research parks, often with significant financial commitment...
Proceedings of a Workshop
This report contains the proceedings of a one-day workshop organized by the National Research Council's Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Pol...
Summary of Two Symposia
Technological innovation and growth are critical to U.S. competitiveness in a global economy. One means of facilitating growth and improving competiti...
Understanding the Development of Innovation Capacity in China and India: Summary of a Conference
The return of the once-dormant economies of China and India to dynamism and growth is one of the most remarkable stories in recent history. The two co...
Building Evidence for Policy
Over the course of several decades, copyright protection has been expanded and extended through legislative changes occasioned by national and interna...
A look at any newspaper's employment section suggests that competition for qualified workers in information technology (IT) is intense. Yet even exper...
Summary of a Workshop
Despite the fact that technology is embodied in human as well as physical capital and that interactions among technically trained people are critical ...
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 1982 ...
Innovation for Development and Deployment of Increasingly Clean Electric Power Technologies
Electricity, supplied reliably and affordably, is foundational to the U.S. economy and is utterly indispensable to modern society. However, emissions ...
The Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy updated its 1999 analysis (Appendix A, Securing America's Industrial Strength, 1999) of changes s...
This unique volume contains a powerful set of recommendations on issues at the center of international discussions on investment, trade, and technolog...
The U.S. patent system is in an accelerating race with human ingenuity and investments in innovation. In many respects the system has responded with a...
As part of its analysis of public-private partnerships, the Academies convened leading academic researchers, government officials and policy makers, a...
Challenges and Opportunities
Small businesses have increasingly been recognized as a source of innovation, and one way in which the Federal government encourages such innovation i...
A Workshop Summary
The enactment of the America COMPETES Act in 2006 (and its reauthorization in 2010), the increase in research expenditures under the 2009 American Rec...
NASA's Challenges and Opportunities
NASA is a global leader in aeronautics research and development รขโฌ" fostering advances in aviation safety and emissions, propulsion technology, and...
Papers and Proceedings
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Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions h...
Questions for Research: Summary of a Workshop
The bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2001 coincided with an abrupt and lasting change in the development of entrepreneurial venture-backed firms in t...
Achievements, Challenges, and Opportunities for Cooperation: Report of a Symposium
As part of its review of Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century, the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic ...