RIP: The Basic/Applied Research Dichotomy
U.S. science policy since World War II has in large measure been driven by Vannevar Bush’s famous paper Science—The Endless Frontier.
Research
Innovación en Energía en España: Análisis y Recomendaciones
Establishing a Space Sector for Sustainable Development in Kenya
To expeditiously address fundamental national development needs e.g., health, education, food security and natural resource management; Kenya needs to invoke space-based technologies.
The Public of Public Reason (Sarton Chair Lecture)
Missions-oriented RD&D Institutions in Energy between 2000 and 2010: A Comparative Analysis of China, the United Kingdom, and the United States
By analyzing the institutions that have been created to stimulate energy technology innovation in the United States, the United Kingdom, and China—three countries with very different sizes, political
Israel’s Iron Dome
Iron Dome, Israel’s rocket defense system, fundamentally altered the dynamic between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza.
Giving Thanks for the Brighter Future Ahead
As we celebrate Thanksgiving this year, the world seems troubled, from the Hamas-Israel stand-off in Gaza to Syria’s bloody civil war to the recent fighting in Congo.
The China-Africa Bond: Science, Technology and Engineering Diplomacy
A key attribute of China's diplomacy in recent years is its increasing presence in Africa.
Expert Judgments about RD&D and the Future of Nuclear Energy
Probabilistic estimates of the cost and performance of future nuclear energy systems under different scenarios of government research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) spending were obtained
Access Pricing, Competition, and Incentives to Migrate from “Old” to “New” Technology
In this paper, we analyze the incentives of an incumbent and an entrant to migrate from an “old” technology to a “new” technology, and discuss how the terms of wholesale access affect this migration.
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