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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… -
Competition within government-sponsored R&D: An effective tool for innovation or a recipe for waste and duplication?
Is competition between and within government R&D agencies a force for innovation and for achieving desired outcomes? Or does competition lead to waste, duplication, and unproductive rivalry? The answer is: it depends. Competition can be a powerful tool leading to… -
Climate of Uncertainty: Civic Scenarios for Decision Making
Wicked problems like climate change stress both our ordinary sense-making capacities and our most sophisticated policy tools. While there is overwhelming consensus in the climate science community that human-induced climate change is under way, the specific rates and degrees of… -
Creative Nonfiction/Narrative: Forging a Working Bond between Next Generation Science Communicators and Next Generation Science Policy Scholars
Communicating science to the general public is difficult. But communicating science policy creates even more complexity and challenge for many reasons including the public’s incomplete understanding of the ways in which policy is conceived, shaped and adapted, how economics are… -
The Challenge of Path Dependency and the Need for Anticipatory Governance
Many experts argue that we need to change a number of our large technological systems in order to adapt to the increasing number of challenges our society faces. There are questions about the sustainability of everything from our energy systems…