Author Caroline Wagner Urges More Inclusive Global Science Cooperation

International scientific cooperation in the 21^st century is growing at a spectacular rate, but because the structure emerges from the decisions of scientists to collaborate, it is largely invisible to the outside observer. Scientists in developing countries are often frustrated in their efforts to participate, and policymakers from those countries have difficulty working with a system that is quite different from that of just a few decades ago, scholar and author Caroline S. Wagner said at a AAAS seminar.

Wagner, lead research scientist at George Washington University's Center for International Science and Technology Policy in Washington, D.C., and senior policy analyst at SRI International, says the present-day system by which scientists work together may be thought of as a "new invisible college," an updated version of a 17^th century model. At that time, European scientists, who mostly worked alone, exchanged ideas and discoveries among themselves by post, constituting what they called the "Invisible College."

Wagner delivered her talk on during the 4^th annual AAAS Leadership Seminar in Science & Technology Policy in Washington, D.C.

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