Past Event
The 2012 Haskins Lecture was given by National Science Foundation Director Subra Suresh. The lectureship was established through the generosity of Caryl P. and Edna Haskins, founders of Haskins Laboratories, who were dedicated to improving the nation's understanding of the relationship between scientific progress and sound public policy.
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Evaluates federal small business policies, how they affect the Department of Defense, and the challenges associated with meeting mandated small business goals.
Past Event
The 2010 Haskins Lecture on Science Policy will be given by Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman, whose work was integral to the creation of the Human Genome Project.
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Assesses the effectiveness of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) in improving relationships among its members.
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This report notes the amount of federal research and development funding provided to U.S. colleges and universities by fiscal year and agency, then describes characteristics of academic institutions that have shown a greater propensity to patent.
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This report describes the research methodology, focus, and data collection processes of a study of the cost of compliance with acquisition-related statutes and regulations incurred by major weapon system programs at the program office level.
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Provides results of an analysis based on RAND Corporation's RaDiUS (Research and Development in the United States) database that shows state-by-state trends in federal R&D funding of U.S. universities and colleges from FY 1996 through FY 2002 and
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Originally created by Congress in 1991 as the Critical Technologies Institute and renamed in 1998, the Science and Technology Policy Institute is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the National Science Foundation. ...
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This study examines the rationale and strategies available to the federal government for promoting and accelerating innovation in housing.
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The new status of Korea, as well as the changing nature of global science, mandates a new look at the bilateral S&T relationship.
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Presents comments and discussion on a variety of issues to gain a wide perspective on best practices for technology transfer.
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Insights and information from a study of twelve human tissue repositories.
Journal Article
Explores the potential effect on future innovation in biotechnology of a patent on a gene, which may cover a wide range of possible technological applications and be of unknown breadth when issued.
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This document culminates a year-long process of soliciting input and examining
options for government action to support the national innovation system.
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The charter of PCAST's (President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology) Panel on Federal Investment in Science and Technology and its National Benefits is to review the federal government's research and development (R&D) portfolio and make recommendations on areas where programs should be expanded, curtailed, or maintained.
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This paper presents an overview of governmental technology policy in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG).
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Assesses the current state of knowledge about the effect of television station group ownership in order to assist the Commission in its deliberations.
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The Communications Act of 1934 is serving well in directing changes in market structure in light of opportunities and problems posed by technological advance. The Act is broadly worded, thus giving the FCC and other parties wide latitude to make judg...
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How can the political environment of the FCC be changed? The author addresses this question in terms of what he maintains is the root problem: the FCC's overidentification with the powerful elements of the regulated industries at the expense of pub...
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Assistant Policy Analyst
B.A. in physics, University of Chicago; J.D., Fordham University School of Law
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