PODCAST
Legally Poisoned: How the Law Puts Us At Risk From Toxicants
We need to rethink the legal framework that allows new industrial chemicals to enter the market every day without being tested for potential health impacts on humans.
ENERGY INNOVATION
Super Hot Salt: A Super Cool Solar Technology Innovation
As BrightSource Energy adds cutting-edge molten salt storage to its new solar plants, the choice between clean energy and cheap energy is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
INNOVATION POLICY
President Obama Links Middle Class Prosperity and Innovation
President Obama’s State of the Union address demonstrated the importance of science, innovation, and economic competitiveness to a prosperous and growing middle class.
INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVENESS
Rewiring the Federal Government for Competitiveness
A proposal to elevate the Department of Commerce by consolidating federal trade, technology, workforce training, and economic development programs into one department with one mission: national competitiveness through innovation.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Online Piracy, Intellectual Property, and the Great Blackout of 2012
A day of online activism by Internet titans, bloggers, and citizens may have shifted the political calculus of controversial online piracy and intellectual property legislation.
INNOVATION
The Corporate R&D Tax Credit and U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness
Measures to simplify and strengthen the corporate R&D tax credit can help make the most of the spillover benefits of innovation and enhance economic competitiveness.
SCIENCE OF POLITICS
Conservatives Respond to the Science of Conservatism
Chris Mooney clears up misunderstandings about the findings of several scientific studies pointing to behavioral differences between liberals and conservatives.
SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION
Getting Good Technology out of the Lab and into the Marketplace
Encouraging the commercialization of ideas and easing the path from paper, to patent, to product for new technologies would have major benefits for small businesses.
TECHNOLOGY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Big Ideas for Small Business
In the latest installment of CAP’s “Big Ideas for Small-Business Policy” series, Sean Pool and Ed Paisley address changes to existing policy that help start up firms with high growth potential create jobs through the commercialization of new technology.
INVESTING IN SCIENCE
House Science Cuts Don’t Make the Cut
The House appropriations bill cuts vital science reserach on food safety, technology innovation, agriculture, and rural entrepreneurship, but preserves the corporate jet tax loophole.
JOBS AND INNOVATION
Accelerating Regional Job Creation and Innovation
A small but promising new federal program aims to help the private sector create thousands of jobs by helping small business, institutions of higher learning, and regional economic development agencies collaborate to innovate.
PROCESS INNOVATION
The Coolest New Solar Manufacturing Technology You’ve Never Heard Of
Humble “process innovations” like the DOE’s new Optical Cavity Furnace don’t get much attention, but are in fact among the most important parts of the solution to climate challenges.
EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
ARPA-Ed and the Future of Education Innovation
First DARPA, then ARPA-E, now… ARPA-Ed? On Wednesday the Senate HELP committee will discuss whether or not to create a new Advanced Research Projects Agency for Education.
INNOVATION
Creating Jobs by Investing in Innovation
The jobs of today came from the innovation of yesterday. Leaders of both parties should be discussing how we can invest in innovation today to create the jobs of tomorrow.
PODCAST
A Talk With Tony Leiserowitz on Public Attitudes Toward Climate Science and Policy
Two new polls out this month reveal interesting insights about Americans’ attitudes toward climate science and policy action; they don’t always match up.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Climate Scientist Open Letter Wars
A group of Australian scientists have published an uncharacteristically blunt letter reiterating yet again that the public debate about climate science is “phony.” It’s real, it’s here, and its time to suck it up and deal.
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Exponentially Accelerating Information Technologies Could Put an End to Corporations
David S. Rose shares his theories of how exponentially accelerating information technology is redefining business, changing the workforce, and fundamentally altering society.
ENERGY INNOVATION
Low-Carbon Innovation
A new CAP report outlines how to build low-carbon innovation networks that are greater than the sum of their parts.
INVESTING IN INNOVATION
Investing in Innovation Pays Off
Science and technology are what move our economy forward. Two new studies show the pay off from federal investments in life science innovation is off the charts.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate Change Could Create New Risks to U.S. Nuclear Reactor Safety
In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, it’s high time we reviewed the resilience of American nuclear reactors to natural disasters, and how climate change could increase our risk.
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