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AAAS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
POLICY YEARBOOK
1998

Covering major developments during 1997, the new AAAS Yearbook is a concise yet comprehensive source of information on current policy issues affecting science and technology. Included are papers from the 22nd Annual AAAS Colloquium on Science and Technology Policy (April 23-25, 1997) together with other key articles and speeches. Working scientists, engineers, government policymakers and administrators, industrial managers, scholars and students of science and technology policy, and many others will find this book an invaluable resource. Special quantity discounts are available for classroom use. The table of contents is reproduced below.

AAAS Science and
Technology Policy
Yearbook 1998

Albert H. Teich
Stephen D. Nelson
Celia McEnaney
editors

Committee on Science, Engineering
and Public Policy

American Association for
the Advancement of Science

Copyright 1997 by the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science


Ordering Information

The AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 1998 is available for $24.95 a copy ($19.95 for AAAS members) from the AAAS Distribution Center. Please refer to AAAS Publication Number 97-21S.

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Contents (Total: 439 pages)

Part 1: The 1997 William D. Carey Lecture

1. Important and Continuing Changes in Science and Engineering - Philip H. Abelson

Part 2: Re-Examining National Needs for Science and Technology

2. Trends in Information Technology and Their Implications for R&D:
Or What in the World Is Going on Out There? - Irving Wladawsky-Berger
3. Global Change and University R&D - Erich Bloch
4. From Technology Politics to Technology Policy - Lewis M. Branscomb
5. Expanding the Policy Design Model for Science and Technology:
Some Thoughts Regarding the Upgrade of the Bush Model of American Science and Technology Policy - Michael M. Crow
6. Science Goals and Societal Goals: What's the Connection? - Daniel Sarewitz
7. A Path Beyond the Ecology of Science - Radford Byerly, Jr.
8. The Two Cultures Revisited - Jonathan R. Cole
9. The Increasing Linkage Between U.S. Technology and Public Science
- Francis Narin, Kimberly S. Hamilton, and Dominic Olivastro

Part 3: The Budgetary and Policy Context for R&D in FY 1998

10. Science and Technology Policy at the Dawn of the 21st Century - John H. Gibbons
11. Public Expectations: Effects and Implications for Federal R&D - Senator Bill Frist
12. Science and Technology in the 105th Congress - Representative F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.
13. An Overview of Federal Budget Proposals for R&D in FY 1997 - Kei Koizumi and Stephen D. Nelson
14. U.S. Leadership in Science: Can It Survive Downsizing? - Kenneth M. Brown
15. The R&D Magazine Basic Research White Paper:
Defining Our Path to the Future - The Staff of R&D Magazine
16. Engineering and the Integration of Science and Technology in a Competitive World - Daniel S. Goldin
17. Science and Technology in the Department of Energy - Federico F. Pena
18. R&D Policy: Cooperation is the Current Byword - Wil Lepkowski

Part 4: Emerging Patterns in Cross-Sector Partnerships

19. California's New R&D Partnerships for the Knowledge-Based Economy
- Susanne L. Huttner and Cherisa Yarkin
20. R&D in an Era of Cooperation - Aris Melissaratos
21. Industry-University Collaboration in Innovative Process Management - Maurice F. Holmes
22. National Lab Partnerships: What Works and What Doesn't - C. Bruce Tarter

Part 5: Science, Technology, and Intellectual Property: Challenges for the 21st Century

23. Patents and Biotechnology - Kate H. Murashige
24. Why Science Is Concerned About an Intellectual Property Right in Databases - Jerome H. Reichman
25. Challenges to Copyright Law and Fair Use by New Information Technology - Dan L. Burk
26. Response from the Administration - Keith M. Kupferschmid

Part 6: The Future of American Research Universities

27. Impact of Federal Policies on the Research and Graduate Education Activities
of a Major, Public Research University - George E. Walker
28. Matching-Fund and Cost-Sharing Requirements in Federal Support of Academic Research - Irwin Feller
29. Biomedical Research Support and the Decline of Medical-Services
Research Subsidies at Medical Schools - Linda Cohen
30. Looking Backward, Then Forward at American Research Universities - Daryl E. Chubin

Part 7: The Symbiosis of Science and Engineering in Policies for Innovation

31. Science and Engineering: A Partnership for Technological Advancement - Kenneth W. Dungan
32. Issues in Academic Settings: Realignment of Roles of Science and Engineering
in a Changing Research Environment - G. Wayne Clough
33. Issues in Industry - William M. James
34. Issues in Government Activities - Fenton Carey
35. Issues in State Economic Development Activities - Richard A. Bendis

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