A National Science Foundation Workshop

Partnerships

Building a New Foundation for Innovation

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J. David Roessner

David Roessner is Associate Director of the Science and Technology Policy Program at SRI International and Professor of Public Policy Emeritus at Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the Georgia Tech faculty in 1980, he was Principal Scientist and Group Manager for Industrial Policy and Planning at the Solar Energy Research Institute in Golden, Colorado. He served as Policy Analyst with the National Science Foundation's R&D Assessment Program and, subsequently, as Acting Leader of the Working Group on Innovation Processes and their Management in the Division of Policy Research and Analysis at NSF. Previous to this he was Research Associate at the Bureau of Social Science Research, Inc. His first professional position was as a development engineer for Hewlett-Packard Co. in Palo Alto, California.

Dr. Roessner received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Brown University and Stanford University, respectively. He returned to graduate school after working at Hewlett-Packard to receive the master's degree in Science, Technology, and Public Policy from Case Western Reserve University in 1967, and the Ph.D. in the same field in 1970.

Dr. Roessner's research interests include national technology policy, the evaluation of research programs, the management of innovation in industry, technology transfer, and indicators of scientific and technological development. In addition to numerous technical reports, he has published in policy-oriented journals such as Policy Analysis, Policy Sciences, the Journal of Technology Transfer, Issues in Science and Technology, and Research Policy. He was for six years a U.S. editor of Research Policy, and remains on their board of editors. He is also a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Technology Transfer and Technology Studies. He is principal author of The Impact of Office Automation on Clerical Employment, 1985-2000 (Quorum Books, 1985), editor of Government Innovation Policy: Design, Implementation, Evaluation (St. Martin's Press, 1988), editor of a special issue of Research Policy, published in 1989, devoted to the evaluation of government innovation programs, co-editor with Philip Shapira of a special issue of Research Policy in 1996 on evaluation of industrial modernization programs, and co-editor with Albert Link of a special issue of Research Policy in 2000 devoted to the economics of technology policy. In 1997 his book on government innovation policy received the Aaron Wildavsky Award for one of the best policy studies books published since 1975. He was a member of the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1992 to 1998, and was elected a Fellow of the AAAS in 1996. He currently chairs AAAS Section P, Industrial Science and Technology. He has served as a consultant to the Office of Technology Assessment, SRI International, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, the National Science Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control, the RAND/Critical Technologies Institute, and the U.S. Department of Commerce.