Projects

Science and Public Value

This project will develop and test non-market, social-outcomes-based criteria for the formation and evaluation of science and technology policies. As an overarching planning and tool-building effort, the project will construct Science and Public Value decision-making models as alternatives to criteria rooted in economic individualism. These models will focus on the conceptualization and measurement of such public values as distributional equity in science outcomes and long-term, inter-generational social impacts. In addition, the project will test the concepts and measures developed through case studies, including: (1) a study of the pharmaceutical industry analyzing how intellectual property laws, the tax treatment of research and equipment, and approaches to industrial R&D affect the ability to market drugs at prices affordable to low income groups throughout the world; (2) a study of environmental controversies in water resources policy and the utility of public value criteria and social convergence decision-making techniques for bringing stakeholders to more effective collective action.


Public Value of Social Policy Research by David H. Guston and Jocelyn E. Crowley, Rutgers University
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Public Value Mapping of Science Outcomes: Theory and Method: A Monograph of the Public Value Mapping Project of the Center for Science, Policy and Outcomes by Barry Bozeman

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Public Failures in U.S. Science Policy by Barry Bozeman and Daniel Sarewitz
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