- Technopolis - http://www.technopolis.co.uk/
An innovation policy consultancy, which specialises in the evaluation, comparative analysis and implementation of government science and technology policy and SME support programmes.
- Research Competitiveness Program - http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/rcp/rcp.htm
An effort to assist U.S. states participating in the National Science Foundation's "Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research", from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy - http://www.ostp.gov/index.html
In the Executive Office of the President. Current and archived information about policy on fundamental science, education and scientific literacy, investment in applied research, and international cooperation.
- Gender, Science and Technology Gateway - http://gstgateway.wigsat.org/
Global web portal presented by the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD). Policy recommendations and resources pertaining to sustainable development that addresses gender inequality.
- Space Policy Project - http://www.fas.org/spp/
Information and analysis on civil and military space issues, policies and programs. Covers a variety of topics including life on Mars, advanced aircraft, Russian aerospace, Challenger accident, space weapons, exploration, and links.
- Federation of American Scientists - http://www.fas.org/index.html
Involved in a variety of projects, including monitoring arms sales and weapons development, cyberstrategy, intelligence reform, military analysis, nuclear weapons, space policy, and monitoring emerging diseases.
- Issues in Science & Technology - http://www.nap.edu/issues/
Journal published by the National Academy Press (U.S.) - Publicly available archives going back many years from influential people in US government science policy.
- American Geophysical Union: Science and Policy - http://earth.agu.org/sci_soc/policy/sci_pol.html
Upcoming legislation and government regulations that have implications for the geophysical sciences, and position statements on policy-related topics.
- The Foundation for Science and Technology - http://www.foundation.org.uk/
Aims to provide a neutral platform for the debate of science or technology issues of importance to society. Includes PDF downloads of journals and ordering information for other materials.
- The Decline of Unfettered Research - http://www.math.washington.edu/Commentary/science.html
Essay explaining the reasons for the decline of "unfettered" or "curiosity-driven" research.
- Technology Policy & Assessment Center - http://www.tpac.gatech.edu/
This Georgia Institute of Technology Center engages in interdisciplinary research and analysis of technology-intensive issues occurring at the interface of engineering, management and technology policy.
- The Science Foresight Project - http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/foresight
The first completely Internet-based international science foresight activity. The goal was to identify emerging research developments in the physical and engineering sciences using experts selected by purely objective methods.
- Foresight: Making the future work for you - http://www.foresight.gov.uk/
The UK Foresight programme is managed by the Office of Science and Technology and brings together key people, knowledge and ideas to look beyond normal commercial time horizons to identify potential opportunities from new science and technologies and actions to help realise those opportunities.
- National Science Board - http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/start.htm
The National Science Board is the US science policy advisor to the President and the Congress. Their homepage contains many documents on the US science and technology policy.
- Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities - http://www.academy.ac.il
Promoting scientific excellence, providing advice to the government on scientific issues of national importance, maintaining scientific relations with similar bodies worldwide, and publishing scholarly works.
- AAAS Directorate for Science and Policy Programs - http://www.aaas.org/spp/
Programs devoted to activities in realms where science, government and society intersect, to further the work of scientists, promote of human welfare, and foster scientific freedom and responsibility.
- Information Technologies and Social Development - http://www.unrisd.org/unrisd/website/projects.nsf/(httpProjects)/A2C02484CD29933980256B5A0044EE67?OpenDocument
UNRISD project exploring how new information and communications technologies can be used in developing countries. Events, publications, unpublished papers, and researcher profiles. Some content in French.
- Civil Society and the EU - http://www.geocities.com/dspichtinger/cseu.html
Masters degree thesis suggests increased participation in research policy by groups not representing business or science.
- ACM Public Policy Office - http://www.acm.org/usacm/
Statements of goals, position papers, letters and testimony to Congress and other government bodies.
- Optical Society of America - Policies - http://www.osa.org/publicpolicy/
OSA promotes the generation, application and archiving of knowledge in optics and photonics and disseminates this knowledge worldwide.
- The rise of technocapitalism - http://www.technocapitalism.com
Prof. Suarez-Villa on technocapitalism, its sources and phenomena, continuous invention and innovation, networks, the experimental firm, innovative capacity, technological eras.
- FYI - http://www.aip.org/enews/fyi/
Summarizes science policy developments in Washington affecting the physics and astronomy community. Summaries are approximately one page long and are issued two or more times every week. FYI e-mail subscriptions are free; they are provided by the American Institute of Physics as a service to the science community.
- Koshland Science Museum - http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/
Museum of the National Academy of Sciences, focusing on "science behind the headlines", in particular current and sometimes controversial policy issues.
- Geology & Public Policy - http://www.geosociety.org/science/govpolicy.htm
Join the G&PP List Serve or Geology in Government Mentor Program. Be a Congressional Science Fellow. Read congressional and federal actions which affect the geoscience community.
- Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy - http://www.advancedstudies.org/
The Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy is a private, non-partisan research and advisory organization focused on information, technology, and national security policy and related issues.
- Association for Politics and the Life Sciences - http://www.hass.usu.edu/~apls/
Interdisciplinary association of scholars, scientists, and policymakers concerned with problems that involve politics or public policy and one or more of the life sciences.
- Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes - http://www.cspo.org
A non-profit think tank that works with the U.S. Congress on issues involving science policies and their effects on society. Includes issues papers and analyses on current topics.
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