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• Winter 2021

  A View from the Boardroom

  Norman R. Augustine

  The interview with Charles O. Holliday, “We Don’t Know What This Is Yet” (Issues, Fall 2020), was truly illuminating. I found little, if anything, with which I could disagree. But… Read More

• Summer 2020

  The Race to the Top

  David Sainsbury

  Since 1990, nations of the Group of Seven, comprising the world’s largest industrialized economies, have all shown declining rates of economic growth. Over the same period, growth in many developing countries has… Read More

• Summer 2020

  “This Is Everybody’s Issue”

  Margaret A. Hamburg, William Kearney, Victor Dzau

  The editor of Issues in Science and Technology, William Kearney, recently discussed the coronavirus pandemic with National Academy of Medicine President Victor Dzau and immediate past NAM Foreign Secretary Margaret “Peggy” … Read More

• April 16, 2020

  Where’s Congress? Don’t Just Blame Trump for the Coronavirus Catastrophe

  M. Anthony Mills, Robert Cook-Deegan

  How in the world did it happen? The United States has the highest rating in the world on the Global Health Security Index, which assesses prevention, capacity for detection, preparedness and planning,… Read More

• Winter 2020

  Will Precision Medicine Lead to a Healthier Population?

  Nigel Paneth, Richard Cooper

  Human health and biomedical science have been transformed in tandem over the past two centuries. From around 1850 to 1920, better nutrition and prevention of epidemic infections were the main contributors to… Read More

• Summer 2019

  Artificial Intelligence for a Social World

  Justine Cassell

  Will artificial intelligence (AI) mean the end of social interaction? I want to say right away—so that you can stop reading if this disappoints you—that I’m not going to answer that question.… Read More

• April 17, 2020

  Where’s Congress? Don’t Just Blame Trump for the Coronavirus Catastrophe

  You can watch a recording of this webinar here. The United States has the world’s highest rating on the Global Health Security Index. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may… Read More

• Summer 2019

  Protecting the Accuracy of the 2020 Census

  Constance F. Citro

  Since 1790, US census data has been built into the fabric of the society, economy, and polity—and strong systems can assure accuracy.

• Summer 2018

  Beyond Patents

  Jeffrey Funk

  Over the past 20 years, patent analysis has become a dominant method of studying innovation. The number of papers containing “patent citation” listed in Google Scholar rose from fewer than 10 in… Read More

• Fall 2018

  Investing in Entrepreneurs Everywhere

  Tracy Van Grack

  In July 2018, the US House of Representatives—in a surprising act of bipartisanship—passed a collection of bills dubbed the Jobs Act 3.0. The bills, broadly speaking, were designed to ignite innovation and… Read More

• Winter 2019

  Why the United States Should Partner With Africa to Deploy Advanced Reactors

  Jessica Lovering, Kenton De Kirby

  Africa has nuclear power in its future. Interest in nuclear energy technologies among African nations is considerable and growing. Of the 30 countries identified by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as… Read More

• Winter 2018

  Forum – Winter 2018

  Daniel Sperling, Edward A. Parson, Jane C. S. Long, Richard R. Nelson, Keith Kloor, Irwin Feller, Ben Shneiderman, Sallie Keller, Stephanie Shipp, Alan Jenn, David L. Greene, Laura M. Hartman, Lisa H. Sideris, Yves Gingras

  What drives innovation? In “What Does Innovation Today Tell Us about the US Economy Tomorrow?” (Issues, Fall 2017), Jeffrey Funk starts with an assertion that puzzles me, but after that… Read More

• Summer 2018

  Indicators of R&D Tax Support

  Ana González-Cabral, Fernando Galindo-Rueda, Silvia Appelt

  Investment in research and development (R&D) is a key driver of innovation and economic growth. In addition to funding R&D within public institutes or universities, governments within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation… Read More

• July 15, 2018

  Chinese Innovation on the Rise

  Tom Burroughs

  7/15/18 – China joined the world’s top 20 most innovative economies and is aiming to move higher, while the United States fell out of the top 5, according to the recently released… Read More

• Winter 2018

  Funding Highways

  Alan Jenn, Daniel Sperling, David L. Greene

  As John Paul Helveston says in “Navigating an Uncertain Future for US Roads” (Issues, Fall 2017), highway finance in the United States is “broken and broke.” It is ill suited… Read More

• Winter 2018

  Scaling Up Policy Innovations in the Federal Government: Lessons from the Trenches

  Jenn Gustetic

  Large bureaucracies such as those of the federal government are notoriously slow to innovate. But in recent years, new technology-enabled approaches to helping government meet its public obligations have begun to find… Read More

• Winter 2018

  Make America Great Again

  Gregory Tassey

  The United States emerged from World War II as the dominant technology-driven economy in the world. For decades, virtually every major technology was developed and initially commercialized within the US economy by… Read More

• Winter 2018

  What Drives Innovation?

  Richard R. Nelson, Irwin Feller, Sallie Keller, Stephanie Shipp

  In “What Does Innovation Today Tell Us about the US Economy Tomorrow?” (Issues, Fall 2017), Jeffrey Funk starts with an assertion that puzzles me, but after that he develops and… Read More

• Fall 2017

  What Does Innovation Today Tell Us About the US Economy Tomorrow?

  Jeffrey Funk

  How does the future of technological innovation look for the United States economy? Experts disagree. Techno-optimists such as Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Martin Ford, and Ray Kurzweil claim that there are endless… Read More

• Summer 2017

  The End of the Line

  G. Pascal Zachary

  Innovation is almost universally desired but almost always misunderstood. Confusion abounds over such basic tasks as how to describe how innovation works and even what counts as innovation. If culture conditions innovation,… Read More

• Spring 2017

  Give Bats a Break

  Merlin D. Tuttle

  Searches for new viruses in bats are unlikely to contribute substantially to human health, but they may threaten the future of bats.

• Winter 2017

  A Technology-Based Growth Policy

  Gregory Tassey

  Monetary and fiscal policies to stimulate the economy are no substitute for the national research and development investment needed to spur productivity growth and create high-paying, high-skill jobs. Talk to people in… Read More

• Fall 2016

  Crime and Immigration: New Forms of Exclusion and Discrimination

  Mary C. Waters

  Mary C. Waters gives a lecture on The War on Crime and the War on Immigrants: New Forms of Legal Exclusion and Discrimination in the United States In the United States today,… Read More

• Winter 2016

  How to Bring Global R&D into Latin America: Lessons from Chile

  José Guimón, Laurens Klerkx, Thierry de Saint Pierre

  Over the past several decades, a growing number of multinational companies have established research and development (R&D) facilities outside of their home countries. More recently, some universities and public research organizations have… Read More

• Summer 2015

  The Pauling-Teller Debate: A Tangle of Expertise and Values

  Melinda Gormley, Melissae Fellet

  This historic debate from the height of the Cold War provides a refreshing perspective on science and politics. By 1958, Americans had been living under threat of nuclear attack for more than… Read More

• November 12, 2013

  Links

  Professional societies www.nationalacademies.org The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council. All National Academy Press books available free online. The Science and Public Policy… Read More

• Spring 2014

  Steal This Book

  Paul F. Uhlir

  In 1971, Abbie Hoffman mischievously named his first book-length screed Steal This Book, and founded a publishing company, Pirate Press, because no existing publisher would touch it. It was a countercultural… Read More

• Spring 2014

  And Now for Something Completely Different

  Kevin Finneran

  The poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote that “The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” And for most people, she is right, even though the hardcore Issues reader might not be happy… Read More

• Spring 2014

  The Politics behind China’s Quest for Nobel Prizes

  Junbo Yu

  JUNBO YU China is applying its strategy for winning Olympic gold to science policy. It may be surprised by the outcomes—but overall, the world will benefit. Skeptics about the capacity of… Read More

• Winter 2014

  Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Transport

  Parth Vaishnav, Iddo K. Wernick

  International transport, which includes ocean shipping and aviation, is among the fastest-growing sources of human-generated greenhouse gas emissions. Between 2009 and 2010, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from international transport grew faster—… Read More