AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2000 AAAS
SCIENCE
AND
TECHNOLOGY
POLICY
YEARBOOK
2000

 

Albert H. Teich
Stephen D. Nelson
Ceilia McEnaney
Stephen J. Lita
editors

American Association for the
Advancement of Science

2000


CONTENTS
(all chapters are in PDF format only; you may also download, as a package, all the chapters in each section and the introductions to the chapters by clicking on the section heading)
  Title Page and Ordering Information (HTML)
  Preface
 
Part 1
The 1999 William D. Carey Lecture

1. Has the Time of Witches Passed Over?
John H. Gibbons
 
Part 2
R&D and Global Technological Innovation

2. Outlook for the National Economy
Barry Bosworth
3. Ushering in a New Century of Progress Through Discovery
Neal Lane
4. The Global Context for Technology and Trade
Robert J. Shapiro
5. Globalizing Industrial Research and Development
Donald H. Dalton and Manuel G. Serapio, Jr.
6. Are New Global Rules Needed for High-Tech?
Kenneth S. Flamm
 
Part 3
Globalization and the Knowledge Economy

7. The Knowledge Economy and Corporate Globalism
Bernard I. Robertson
8. The Economics of Globalization: A Labor View
Thomas I. Palley
9. Globalization: A Cautionary Note
Dennis Pirages
10. Science at the U.S. Department of State
Frank E. Loy
 
Part 4
Knowledge Management and Innovation

11. Managing Corporate Knowledge to Create Strategic Opportunities
Larry G. Chorn
12. Knowledge Management at Los Alamos
Stephen M. Younger
13. Directions for Collaborative Scientific Dialog
Stephen D. Hodges
14. Knowledge Sharing: A Perspective from Xerox - The Document Company
Michael W. Laird
15. Unnatural Acts: Building the Mature Firm's Capability for Breakthrough Innovation
Richard Leifer and Mark Rice
 
Part 5
Bringing the Knowledge Economy Home: The Role of State and Local Governments

16. Kansas S&T Initiatives Fuel the New Knowledge Economy
Richard A. Bendis
17. Bringing the Technology Revolution Home in Pennsylvania
Timothy McNulty
18. Technology and Economic Development for Whom?: The Prospects for "Dual Agenda" State Programs
Barry Bozeman
 
Part 6
Information Technology: Backbone of the Knowledge Economy

19. Policies for the Emerging E-Commerce Marketplace
Elliot E. Maxwell
20. Government and Private Sector Roles in the IT Revolution
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
21. The Physical Review and Electronic Publishing
Martin Blume
22. The Database Protection Debate in the United States
Jonathan Band and Makoto Kono
23. The Emergence of Grid Information Infrastructures
Larry L. Smarr
24. Information Technology Research: Investing in Our Future
President's Information Technology Advisory Committee
 
Part 7
Secrecy in Science and Access to Scientific Data

25. The Science of Secrecy
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
26. Government Policy and the Commercial Value of Academic Information
Robert Cook-Deegan
27. New Secrecy in Science: Government-Imposed to Self-Imposed
Howard K. Schachman

Part 8
Research Universities and the Knowledge Economy

28. Science, Technology, and Innovation: Reflections on Change
Charles M. Vest
29. Renewing the Federal Government-University Research Partnership for the 21st Century
National Science and Technology Council
30. Strategic Options to Enhance the Research Competitiveness of EPSCoR Universities
Irwin Feller
31 The Role of the University: Leveraging Talent, Not Technology
Richard Florida

Part 9
Issues of the Day

32. Evaluating Federal Research Programs: Research and the Government Performance and Results Act
Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences / National Academy of Engineering / Institute of Medicine
33. Ritual Abuse, Hot Air, and Missed Opportunities
Michael Crichton
34. Stem Cell Research and Applications: Monitoring the Frontiers of Biomedical Research
Audrey R. Chapman, Mark S. Frankel and Michele S. Garfinkel
35. Asking Good Questions: A Congressman Looks at Science Education
Representative Rush D. Holt
Index


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