Investing in Innovation Creating a Research and Innovation Policy That Works
Lewis M. Branscomb and James H. Keller
- United States of America The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1998
- 516 Pages illustrations 23 cm
"Shortly after taking office in 1993, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore called for a shift in American technology policy toward an expansion of public investments in partnerships with private industry, backed up by scientific research in universities and national laboratories. The authors of this volume were invited by the Clinton administration to take a hard, nonpartisan look on how successful the new policies have been and to propose ways to make their programs more effective. The first summary report of the team's recommendations was called the ""hottest technology policy property on Capitol Hill"". This book, an expansion of that report, offers a new set of technology policy principles. The authors use the principles to evaluate many federal research programs and to make recommendations for change. The volume will set the terms of the debate over the national research and innovation policy for years to come."