People

Taylor Spears

Research Intern
 

Taylor Spears is a fourth-year undergraduate at the Barrett Honors College studying economics and science and technology policy. During this past summer, Taylor worked at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, working on nanotechnology, communications, and innovation policy. Prior to joining CSPO, Taylor worked in the university's Office of Sustainability Initiatives, helping to develop interdisciplinary degree-granting institutions and research organizations throughout the university.

Taylor's research focuses on understanding how policy can be used to promote knowledge creation and diffusion among firms, universities, laboratories, and other elements within innovation systems. Inspired by his colleagues at CSPO and several classes he has taken on S&TS and philosophy of science, he is also very interested in sociological and philosophical issues surrounding the practice of economics as a discipline.