TPAC – Technology Policy and Assessment Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology

TPAC – Technology Policy and Assessment Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology:
NSF Workshop on Social Organization of Science and Science Policy

Draft Agenda

NSF Workshop on
The Social Organization of Science and Science Policy
July 13-14, 2006

National Science Foundation, Room Stafford II-555
All participants must sign in at the main NSF building, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA

The workshop will explore the social science foundations of science policy in the context of today’s complex, global, and technologically-mediated society. Understanding the fundamental social processes involved in the structure and organization of science policy are crucial for maximizing the ability of science policy to enhance scientific development and innovation. This understanding requires more than an examination of economic inputs, outputs and the rational deployment of economic resources towards scientific goals; these criteria are necessary but not sufficient. In order to fully understand the formulation, acceptance, dissemination, and impacts of science policy, we also need to understand its social organization and the political, economic, and sociological context within which science policy and science succeed or flounder.

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