Chapter 17. RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND SCIENCE POLICY
We added this chapter because researchers need to see how their activities relate to social and economic goals, and they must be able to understand trends that shape science policy. Since they do have some choices of how they will spend their time, they must be able to influence funding for their research by understanding broader policy implications.
Science policy should not be shaped only in the nation's capital. Unfortunately, one of the major problems in the United States has been insufficient participation by scientists in shaping policy. In discussing research goals with colleagues, supervisors, subordinates, and science policy framers, researchers need to know something about the formulation ...
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