"The New Enclosure"
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U.S. House of Representatives,
U.S. Science and Technology
Policy Resources:
Committee on Science and Technology
U.S. House of Representatives,
Committee on Energy and Commerce
U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce,
Science and Transportation
U.S. Senate Committee on Energy
and Natural Resources
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment
and Public Works
U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy
Federal R&D Budgets
President's Council of Advisors on
Science and Technology
National Science and
Technology Council
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Next Generation Air Transportation System: Joint Planning and Development Office
Federal Aviation Administration (U.S. Dept. of Transportation)
Agricultural Research Service (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture)
National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security)
Defense Research and Engineering (U.S. Dept. of Defense)
Bureau of Economic Analysis (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
Economics and Statistics Administration (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Educational Technology (U.S. Dept. of Education)
National Academy of Engineering
Energy Information Administration (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
Energy: Information for Researchers (U.S. Dept. of Energy)
Environmental Measurements Laboratory (U.S. Department of Homeland Security)
Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S. Dept. of the Interior)
Food and Drug Administration (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)
U.S. Geological Survey (U.S. Dept. of the Interior)
U.S. Global Change Research Program (Executive Office of the President)
National Institutes of Health: Research
Institute of Medicine
Office of Management and Budget (Whitehouse)
National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
National Research Council
National Technical Information Service (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
Patent and Trademark Office (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
National Academy of Sciences
National Science Foundation
National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
Transportation Science and Technology (U.S. Dept. of Transportation
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this stunning true color picture of the gigantic nebula NGC 3603 on March 5, 1999 with its Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. This single view illustrates nicely the entire stellar life cycle of stars, starting with the Bok globules* and giant gaseous pillars, followed by circumstellar disks, and progressing to evolved massive stars in the goung starburst cluster. The blue supergiant with its ring and bipolar outflow marks the end of the lfe cycle. (* A Bok globule is a type of interstellar cloud gas that may be a site of cloud formation.)
Science and Technology Policy in the United States is the result of the author's extensive experience in government, enabling her to develop a powerful framework for thinking about the American approach to shaping and managing innovation. Kraemer argues that federal science and technology policy making in the US is best understood as a negotiation of tensions--ongoing since the nation's founding--between open and closed technological, cultural, and political systems.
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Grand Canyon, from the South Rim. The Grand Canyon, which cuts through the Colorado River plateau in northwestern Arizona, encompasses more than 1.2 million acres. The oldest human artifacts found at the Canyon are nearly 12,000 years old and date from the Paleo-Indian period. The Canyon was designated a National Park in 1919 and is maintained by the National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Image Credit: NASA, Wolfgang Brandner (JPL/PAC), Eva K. Grebel (University of Washington), You-Hue Chu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).
Sylvia Kraemer, Science and Technology Policy in the United States: Open Systems in Action, Rutgers University Press, 2006
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"Kraemer's book ably sets policy and policymaking for science and technology in the United States where it belongs, in the larger context of the nation's political economy, and she convincingly contends that they best serve society when they operate in the light of democratic openness."
--- Daniel Kevles, Yale University
"Kraemer makes a very important contribution by placing science and technology policymaking in the context of the values and priorities that have influenced all public policymaking in America throughout its history. . . . [her] 'open systems' thesis brings a fresh analytical perspective to a discussion about America's global competitiveness, which is usually limited to cries for better science and engineering education and lobbying for looser restrictions on high technology industries."
--- Shobita Parthasarathy, in Technology and Culture
"This is an outstanding piece of work by a leader in the field who brings intellectual depth and real-life experience inside federal agencies to her study of science and technology policy in the United States."
--- Kingsley E. Haynes, Dean and Hazel Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
"Dr. Sylvia Kraemer superbly highlights historical events in the context of global science and technology competitiveness. . . . This book is recommended for historians, policy makers, and general readers alike."
--- Arnauld Nicogossian, Distinguished Research Professor and Director, Office of International Medical Policy, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
"This is an important study that will have a significant impact on the way the American scholarly community and the informed reading public view the reality of science and technology policy."
--- Alex Roland, Duke University
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Image Credit: Atelier Kraemer.