Innovation Policy around the World
Every issue explores cutting-edge developments in technology, medicine, education, climate change, and much more. Articles provide in-depth analyses of science and technology’s impact on public policy, the economy, and society—bringing today’s best minds to bear on tomorrow’s most critical topics.
Editor's Journal
Expanding Innovation
Innovation is good. Everyone says so. It will increase worker productivity and thus the world’s wealth and the value of work. It will cure deadly diseases and ease the ailments that afflict… Read More
From the Hill
From the Hill – Spring 2010
Obama budget includes bright spots for R&D Although the Obama administration’s overall R&D budget proposal for the 2011 fiscal year is essentially flat as compared to that for 2010, it does contain… Read More
Features
Archives – Spring 2010
Dome of the Great Hall, National Academy of Sciences Hildreth Meière (1892-1961) was an influential decorative artist known most for her murals, wall sculptures, and other unique works in the Art Deco… Read MoreEuropean Union: Measuring Success
In his keynote speech to the National Academy of Sciences on April 28, 2009, President Obama said that “science is more essential to our prosperity, our security, our health, our environment and… Read MoreUnited States: A Strategy for Innovation
On September 21, 2009, President Obama released his Strategy for American Innovation, which he unveiled in a major policy address that he gave in Troy, New York. The goal of the… Read MoreUnited States: The Need for Continuity
The time is ripe to reassess U.S. national innovation policies and programs and to consider new initiatives. A transition in political control of the White House inevitably produces a change in economic … Read MoreSingapore: Betting on Biomedical Sciences
In an April 2009 report, the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council noted that Singapore, an emerging biotech cluster, was “aiming to move up the value chain and position itself as a world-class center for… Read MoreBrazil: Challenges and Achievements
Until World War II, Brazil had a small number of scientists and only an incipient institutional research base. Its industry was at an embryonic stage and based only in traditional areas. Full-time… Read MoreStart with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health
Much of the frustration that permeates efforts to improve the lives of people in the developing world springs from the fact that the commonly identified roots of the problem are factors that… Read MoreDouble-Edged DNA: Preventing the Misuse of Gene Synthesis
During the past decade, a global industry has emerged based on synthetic genomics: the use of automated machines to construct genes and other long strands of DNA by stringing together chemical building… Read More
Real Numbers
The New Global Landscape of Educational Achievement
Some 10 years ago, we lived in a very different world where education systems tended to be inward-looking, where schools and education systems typically considered themselves to be unique, and where the… Read More
Book Reviews
Every Little bit Counts
The world’s top search engine, a $175 billion corporation second only to Coca Cola in name recognition worldwide, and a new active verb, Google knows what it’s about. But others aren’t so… Read More
Is Medical Technology the Villain?
Daniel Callahan’s Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs are Destroying Our Health Care System is both more and less than the title implies. More, in that it is a blunt,… Read More
An -ology of technology
Postmillenial debate on the appropriate human uses of technology is still framed by the struggle between technophiles, who never met a technology they didn’t like, and Luddites, who manage to believe simultaneously… Read More
Book Review: Job prospects
In this peculiar little book, six prominent economists—the two listed authors plus four distinguished commentators, all writing separately—take stock of the possibility that expanding international trade in services, particularly service imports to… Read More