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 technologyโ€™s impact on public policy, the economy, and societyโ€”bringing todayโ€™s best minds to bear on tomorrowโ€™s most critical topics.

Editor's Journal

  • Expanding Innovation

    Innovation is good. Everyone says so. It will increase worker productivity and thus the worldโ€™s wealth and the value of work. It will cure deadly diseases and ease the ailments that afflictโ€ฆ Read More

From the Hill

  • From the Hill โ€“ Spring 2010

    Obama budget includes bright spots for R&D Although the Obama administrationโ€™s overall R&D budget proposal for the 2011 fiscal year is essentially flat as compared to that for 2010, it does containโ€ฆ Read More

Features

Real Numbers

Book Reviews

  • Googled book cover

    Every Little bit Counts

    The worldโ€™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 itโ€™s about. But others arenโ€™t soโ€ฆ Read More
  • Taming the Beloved Beast book cover

    Is Medical Technology the Villain?

    Daniel Callahanโ€™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,โ€ฆ Read More
  • The nature of technology cover

    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 didnโ€™t like, and Luddites, who manage to believe simultaneouslyโ€ฆ Read More
  • Offshoring of American Jobs book cover

    Book Review: Job prospects

    In this peculiar little book, six prominent economistsโ€”the two listed authors plus four distinguished commentators, all writing separatelyโ€”take stock of the possibility that expanding international trade in services, particularly service imports toโ€ฆ Read More
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