Project Archive


 

Equity Issues in Nanotechnology

Equity, Equality, and Responsibility in Nanotechnology. This project, which is part of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University, is examining the equity and equality implications of the research agenda in three nanotechnology research applications: water, energy, and agri-food. The team has done field work in South Africa and is currently doing parallel analysis in the United States, along with analysis of employment prospects.

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World News Coverage of Biofuels

We are studying global learning processes

  • Directed to solving a world-level problem
  • Knowledge accumulates across national boundaries
  • Global innovation systems develop, test, diffuse solutions

 

What is the role of controversy and conflict in those processes?

  • Greater levels of attention increase the pace of learning.
  • Competition generates variants to be tested.
  • Controversy leads to consensus on adoption criteria.
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The Visualization of Scientific Discovery in the Federal Context

A workshop sponsored by the NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy Program (SciSIP)

In collaboration with the Divisions of Chemistry, Computing and Communication Foundations, Industrial Innovation & Partnerships. Information and Intelligent Systems, Science Resources Statistics, and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure as well as the Department of Energy Office of Science

 

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Measuring and Tracking Research Knowledge Integration and Transfer

Enhanced Science of Science and Innovation Policy depends on better metrics. You can’t manage what you can’t measure. This is particularly true for interdisciplinary research, which currently has few generally agreed-upon measures with acceptable degrees of accuracy. Researchers at the University of Sussex have begun to address this problem by developing a conceptual framework to gauge research diversity. The current project builds upon that conceptual framework to empirically test metrics that gauge the interdisciplinarity of particular bodies of research.…read more

An Evaluation of the Mandatory Drought Responses in Georgia, Focusing on Water Utilities

Due to continuous extreme weather conditions, North Georgia has suffered drought since 2007. During the drought, the Georgia government imposed mandatory drought responses and encouraged conservation practices among water utilities. The purpose of this study was to help improve the performance of water conservation and the effectiveness of drought responses by providing better understanding and analytical explanations of the drought responses.…read more

MOD: Models of International Research Collaboration

As world research capacity expands rapidly, the United States science and engineering enterprise finds itself in a new position. Decades of U.S. dominance in science and engineering research helped create U.S. leadership in emerging industries such as information and biotechnology. But U.S. science and engineering research are likely in coming decades to take their place among many strong players on a global scene.…read more

Distributional Assessment of Emerging Technologies: Case Studies in the Americas

Despite decades of strong economic growth, the problem of global inequality is still large. Within-country inequality is clearly on the rise, and most poor nations are not closing the global gap in standard of living.
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Distributional Assessment of Emerging Technologies: Case Studies in the Americas

Despite decades of strong economic growth, the problem of global inequality is still large. Within-country inequality is clearly on the rise, and most poor nations are not closing the global gap in standard of living.

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World Water: Case Studies in Research as a Redistributive Force in the Knowledge Society

This project, funded by the Science and Society Program, seeks to address the question of how science and technology policies play a role in improving the quality or reducing the cost for a basic service. If such research for development is successful, it can lower costs and increase quality of life and can build technical capacity in developing countries, leaving them better prepared for endogenous innovation in the future.…read more

Doctoral Dissertation Research: International Collaboration and Research Capabilities

Recent trends show that Colombian R&D performance is rapidly improving as compared to countries of similar economic characteristics in the region. This is presumably the result of two 'mega trends' characterizing the Colombian Science and Technology System: 1) the rapid professionalization of the R&D enterprise as materialized by the formation of research teams with the support of the Colombian government and the elite research institutions, and 2) the internationalization of its scientific community specially since the 90s after the opening of the economy to foreign trade.…read more