Issue 2: Science’s Troubled Legacy
Enabling Economic Recovery Through Innovation
SOURCE: SP
In the new print edition: Developing Regional Centers of Innovation, Tackling the Challenge of Patent Reform, and Government Contracting Run Amok.
Download the entire Fall/Winter 2008/2009 issue (.pdf)
Even before the inaugural edition of Science Progress appeared in print this past spring, we at the journal and our companion website already had our eyes set on the inauguration this month of the next president of the United States. At the time, we had no idea who would win the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations, but what we did know was this—whoever became the 44th president would need thoughtful guidance on the complex public policy questions we present to you today in this biannual edition of the journal Science Progress.
That’s why Science Progress and our parent organization, the Center for American Progress, in early 2008 began preparing to convene two roundtable task forces, bringing together experts from both sides of the political aisle and from an array of different private- and public-sector perspectives, to discuss parent reform and innovation. One taskforce set out to identify the ingredients needed to incubate regional centers of innovation so that university-based scientific research can result in broad-based economic prosperity. The second sought to delineate the parameters of the possible in patent reform—one of the key issues the incoming Obama administration and the 111th Congress will have to tackle this year after the effort fell short in 2008. This issue of Science Progress presents their recommendations:
From Many Inventors, One Nation (.pdf)
By Jonathan Moreno
Tackling Complex Issues for New Policymakers (.pdf)
By Ed Paisley
Innovation
Place Matters (.pdf)
Innovation Springs from Many Seeds, But Soil Is Equally Important
By Maryann Feldman
The Federal Role in Catalyzing Innovation (.pdf)
Beyond the Beltway and Through the Networked Economy
By Richard Seline and Steven Miller
Pittsburgh’s Targeted Incubator (.pdf)
Taking Innovation to the Next Level
By James F. Jordan and Paul L. Kornblith
Creating a National Innovation Foundation (.pdf)
Economic Prosperity Rests on Diverse Technology
By Robert Atkinson and Howard Wial
Benchmarking Foreign Innovation (.pdf)
The United States Needs to Learn from Other Industrialized Democracies
By Stephen Ezell
British Innovation Policy (.pdf) (online exclusive)
Lessons for the United States
By Will Straw
Regional Centers of Innovation Task Force Participants
Government Contracting
Science’s Troubled Legacy (.pdf)
Time for a 21st-Century Re-envisioning of 20th-Century Government Contracting Rules Designed to Boost Scientific Innovation
By Dan Guttman
Patent Reform
Tackling the Challenge of Patent Reform (.pdf)
Recommendations for the Obama administration and Congress
By Rick Weiss
Improving the Effectiveness of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (.pdf)
By Gerald J. Mossinghoff and Stephen G. Kunin
Patent Trolls Erode the Foundations of the U.S. Patent System (.pdf)
By Daniel P. McCurdy
Global Patent Protection (.pdf)
The International Patent System and the New Administration
By Bruce A. Lehman
Online Supporting Material
Regional Centers of Innovation 101
Innovation Policies for the 21st Century
Patent Reform and Support for Regional Centers of Innovation Are Critical
By Will Straw
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