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Empowering Technology: Implementing a U.S. Policy
	Creator: Lewis M. Branscomb Publisher: The MIT Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$44.00~~ Buy Used: $0.01 as of 5/20/2012 13:59 CDT details You Save: $43.99 (100%) In Stock Used (7) from $0.01 Seller: betterworldbooks_ Sales Rank: 9,512,029 Media: Hardcover Pages: 304 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1 Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1 ISBN: 0262023660 Dewey Decimal Number: 338.97307 EAN: 9780262023665 ASIN: 0262023660 Publication Date: June 24, 1993 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy!



Editorial Reviews: Product Description Technology policy - whether we should have one and what form such a policy should take - was a core issue of the 1992 presidential campaign, and in February 1993 the Clinton administration confirmed that fostering new technologies will be a critical part of its agenda for redirecting the American economy. To help orient the inevitable debates on this agenda, experts from Harvard's Center for Science and International Affairs here examine a set of key issues and problems that, taken together, define the scope and limits of such a policy. Among the topics discussed are the new relationship between federal and state governments implied by the administration's proposals, the usefulness of the concept of "critical technologies" for setting priorities, the creation of new missions for the national laboratories (particularly the three weapons laboratories), the changing nature of the social contract between the government and research universities, the problems that will confront the creation of a national information infrastructure, the best ways to promote small and medium-sized "driver" companies as well as civilian research and development generally, and the relationship between education and the requirements for work in the twenty-first century. Lewis M. Branscomb is Albert Pratt Public Service Professor and Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University.