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Friday, January 25, 2013
What if You Can't Measure What Matters? Public Value Mapping of Science and Innovation Policies
Please join us for breakfast, presentation, conversation, and networking About the SeminarScience and innovation policies are typically justified in terms of a broad range of public values (environmental quality, human health, national security, a skilled workforce, etc.). Yet when it comes to evaluating R&D activities, the assessment approaches generally focus on scientific productivity and economic activity, because they can more easily be measured than public values. As a result, however, science and innovation policy assessments, and decisions based on those assessments, focus on, and run the danger of optimizing, attributes of the research enterprise that don't actually address the public purpose of the R&D. Public Value Mapping offers an alternative, outcomes-oriented, non-economic approach to assessing the effectiveness of science and innovation policies. About the SpeakersDaniel Sarewitz is Professor of Science and Society, and co-director and co-founder of the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes (CSPO), at Arizona State University (http://www.cspo.org). His work focuses on revealing and improving the connections between science policy decisions, scientific research and social outcomes. His most recent book is The Techno-Human Condition (co-authored with Braden Allenby; MIT Press). He is also a regular columnist for the journal Nature. From 1989-1993 he worked on R&D policy issues for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. He received a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Cornell University in 1986. He directs the Washington, DC, office of CSPO, and focuses his efforts on a range of activities to increase CSPO's impact on federal science and technology policy processes, and to improve public debate about scientific and technological issues. |
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