Links: Science and Technology Policy

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Center for Democracy and Technology
All the latest issues, news and debates over computer communication policy are covered by this advocacy center's support base.
 

Center for Law and Social Policy
A public policy research firm that focuses on law and policy affecting the poor.

Cato Institute
Public policy based on limited government and free market economy is demonstrated in audio archives, publications, research and an atlas.

Council on Competitiveness
The Council sets an action agenda to drive U.S. economic competitiveness and leadership in world markets in order to raise the standard of living for all Americans.  We focus on strengthening U.S. innovation, upgrading the workforce, and benchmarking national economic performance. Our members are corporate chief executives, university presidents, and labor leaders. Our national affiliates include nonprofit research organizations, professional societies, and trade associations.

RAND Science and Technology Policy Institute
The institute's mission is to help improve public policy by conducting objective, independent research and analysis to support the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and other government agencies. As the institute has evolved, research management and the institute's sponsor have refined this mission to emphasize analysis that helps with decisions involving multiple government agencies. The S&T Policy Institute is uniquely suited to carry out its mission because it combines technical objectivity and depth of expertise with a knowledge of policy contexts and processes that is far more detailed than an outside contractor--much less a series of contractors chosen ad hoc--could hope to provide.

Stanford Law and Technology Policy Center
Helping Policymakers Better Understand How the Law Promotes Technology Development, Regulates New Technology, and Responds to Technological Change.  The Stanford Law and Technology Policy Center provides information that helps policymakers understand longer-term (five years or greater) technology law issues and make decisions that have far reaching impact.  Technological change is accelerating, and vital public policy decisions depend on understanding the consequences of this accelerating change and the policy implications.  Biotechnology is redefining the boundaries of life and death; Fundamental notions of privacy and other individual rights are being challenged; Large corporations and regulated monopolies are giving way to smaller, networked enterprises; Knowledge is emerging as the most important form of property.

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) is the hub of the John F. Kennedy School of Government's research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, and science and technology policy. The Center's mission is to provide leadership in advancing policy relevant knowledge about the most important challenges of international security and other critical issues where science, technology, and international affairs intersect.
BCSIA's leadership begins with the recognition of science and technology as driving forces transforming threats and opportunities in international affairs. The Center integrates insights of social scientists, natural scientists, technologists, and practitioners with experience in government, diplomacy, the military, and business to address critical issues.

National Technology Transfer Center
The National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC) was established in 1989 by Congress to provide American companies and individuals with access to federal R&D to better enable them to compete in the international marketplace.

Progress & Freedom Foundation
The Progress & Freedom Foundation was founded in 1993 to study the digital revolution and its implications for public policy. The Foundation believes that the digital revolution portends fundamental cultural, economic, political and social changes. While these changes bring challenges, they also create the potential for a new era of human progress. The foundation embraces the idea of progress -- i.e., the belief that Mankind has advanced in the past, is presently advancing, and will continue to advance through the foreseeable future. And it believes that the sort of progress brought about by the digital revolution is inherently favorable to enhanced human individuality and freedom.

Research Triangle Institute
Research Triangle Institute is dedicated to improving the human condition through multidisciplinary research, development, and technical services that meet the highest standards of professional performance.
Founded in 1958, Research Triangle Institute is an independent, nonprofit organization that serves clients in government, industry, academia, and public service throughout the United States and abroad. The Institute conducts research and development and provides technical services in five major areas: Advanced Technologies, Environment, Health and Pharmaceuticals, Public Policy, Survey and Statistics.

Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carnegie Corporation of New York was created by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. The last of Carnegie’s great endowments, it is the only one established as a grantmaking foundation.
For the first eight years of the Corporation’s history, Carnegie himself was president of the board of trustees and personally directed the foundation. Shortly after his death in 1919, the trustees elected a full-time president as the chief executive officer.
Under Carnegie’s will, grants must benefit the people of the United States, although up to 7.4 percent of the funds may be used to benefit the people of some countries that are or have been members of the British overseas Commonwealth.
The Corporation’s capital fund, originally donated at a value of about $135 million, had a market value of $1.55 billion on March 31, 1999.

 The Innovation Network
Organized in 1991, The Innovation Network is a partnership dedicated to providing results- oriented, cost-effective general management consulting to our clients. We focus exclusively on assisting higher education to design and execute institutional change and renewal strategies. Our clients are large and small, public and private colleges and universities across both the U.S. and Canada, as well as multi-campus systems and consortia seeking to initiate and successfully manage large-scale change.