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Africans Dial Up Innovation: A New Paradigm for Development in the Sub-Saharan
The people of the Sub-Saharan region are participating in an historic shift in the ways they relate to science and technology. From Accra to Nairobi, from Lusaka to Bamako — Africans have gone from concentrating almost wholly on absorbing new… -
Do Renewable Energy Innovations Mean a Death Spiral for Electric Utilities?
Renewable energy options, led by rooftop solar, have recently transitioned from a luxury good available to few customers to increasingly cost-effective and mainstream sources of electric supply within the reach of many. Technological, policy and business innovations, together with favorable… -
Is STEM Crisis a Myth?
It’s time for a reasoned, informed dialogue about STEM literacy in the United States, without the political hysterics and contrived logic. Join CSPO co-director Dan Sarewitz and Robert N. Charette, author of the recent IEEE Spectrum article, “The STEM Crisis… -
Technology and Development in a Conflict Zone: War as a Prioritizing Tool
What we now refer to as “development” really began in a systematic way after World War II. The victors had a variety of pressures to address, the most fearsome being the threat of yet another emerging conflict involving new applications… -
A Brave New (online) World
We live in an age where new technologies hit the marketplace at a rate that far outpaces society’s ability to engage in meaningful political debates about their ethical, legal, and political implications. Synthetic biology, nanotechnology and Big Data are only… -
Time to reassess the promise of nanotechnology? An analysis of research, developments and commercialization
Investment in Nanotechnology research is based on the promise of a transition to active nanotechnology, nanostructures, and nanodevices – everything from self-healing materials to molecular machines. But is such a transition really underway, and if so, then where and at… -
Self-Critical Public Science: How to Integrate Creativity and Responsibility
Basic science is rapidly becoming an endangered species. Nowadays, publicly funded scientists cannot easily separate it from applied science, let alone insulate it from questions about its broad ethical, economic and environmental impacts. With policies for public engagement of science…