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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"science policy"”.
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Organising science policy : participation, learning & experimentation in British democracy
The incorporation of public participation into science policy processes has been an important feature of policy practice and the academic literature for more than two decades, yet it has failed to realise its democratising potential or to engender broader changes in organisational and political …
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Assessing computational methods and science policy in systems biology
… biology and issues in the progression of this science discipline. Traditional molecular biology has been driven by reductionism with the belief that breaking down a biological system into the fundamental biomolecular components will elucidate such phenomena. We have reached limitations with …
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The local origins of United States national science policy
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1996.
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National Science Policy Formation in the United States, 1963-1967
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7206963.pdf: 11387583 bytes, checksum: 501dc071827210f1a351d19166ec036a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Scientizing Science Policy: Implications for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy and R&D Evaluation
… understanding of the logic and history behind science of science policy approaches and to substitute for this scientific evidence-based science policy model an evidence-critical and -informed model in which scientific and democratic claims are promoted simultaneously. Science of science policy, …
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DEVELOPING COMPETENCE FOR INNOVATION IN KNOWLEDGE PRACTICE: an exploration of the sustainability science-policy interface
… a “new type of knowledge” in the sustainability science-policy interface. It thus explores the thinking and practice of experts in the field about professional competencies necessary to induce required innovations in their knowledge practice. The thesis proposes a novel conceptual framework, …
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How and what do science advisers learn? Insights from environmental science-policy in the UK
Through their engagements with science-policy, academics often have to revisit some of their enduring assumptions and expectations about the world of policymaking. They have to learn to become (effective) science advisers in diverse contexts. No instruction manuals or guidelines have quite prepared …
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Broadening public input into science policy decision making: can the democratic model for science communication influence scientific, innovation and technological trajectories?
This PhD thesis investigates the potential use of science communication models to engage a broader swathe of actors in decision making in relation to scientific and technological innovation in order to address possible democratic deficits in science and technology policy-making. A four-pronged …
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Coordinating science : White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) influence in federal R&D budgets
… White House OSTP in the nation's budgeting for science and technology activities. Interviews conducted by the researcher with members of the White House staff as well as federal agency officials are the primary empirical support, with analysis of annual priority memoranda and presidential budget …
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Trend analysis in scientometrics
… was one of several created for the 1983 ABRC Science Policy Study which aimed to test the utility of bibliometric models in a national science policy context. The outcome of the validation part of that study proved to be especially favourable concerning the utility of trend data, which purport …
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La dynastie belge et la science, 1909-1959
… the establishment of the National Council for Science Policy (CNPS) in 1959, during king Baudouin's reign, following the publication of the work of the "National Commission on Science" which released its conclusions in the same year. The study deals with the action of the sovereign and the …
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SCIENCE ADVICE IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICYMAKING: AN EXAMINATION OF INSTITUTIONAL BARRIERS IN THE CANADIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
… that scientific knowledge has in evidence-based policymaking. Despite this recognition, academic and empirical research suggests that there are a number of barriers preventing the utilization of science in policy. This thesis examines such barriers in the context of environmental policymaking in …
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Health Starts in the Home: An Assessment of Efforts to Improve Occupant Health through Healthy Building Materials in San Francisco’s Affordable Housing
… reproductive problems (Bayer et al., n.d.; Green Science Policy Institute). Furthermore, these chronic health conditions disproportionately affect low-income populations. Fortunately, substantial efforts in research, practice, and policy are working to reduce the use of these potentially harmful …
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The politics of scientific practice in Taiwan: the hepatitis B control program
… knowledge and the role of government in medical science. The history of Taiwanese hepatitis B control program from 1980 to 1993 provides a valuable case study to investigate these issues. The controversies over the safety of the hepatitis B plasma vaccine display the social contingency of …
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Politically Corrected Science: The Early Negotiation of U.S. Agricultural Biotechnology Policy
This social history of science policy development emphasizes the impact on the agricultural community of federal policies regarding release of recombinant DNA (rDNA) organisms into the environment. The history also demonstrates that the U.S. Coordinated Framework for Biotechnology Regulation (1986) …
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