STS.081 Innovation Systems for Science, Technology, Energy, Manufacturing, and Health
STS.081 Innovation Systems for Science, Technology, Energy, Manufacturing, and Health (Spring 2017, MIT OCW). Instructor: William Bonvillian. This course focuses on science and technology policy - it will examine the science and technology innovation system, including case studies on energy, computing, advanced manufacturing, and health sectors, with an emphasis on public policy and the federal government's role in that system.
Class 5 Description:
Class 5 will review key organizational developments in science, technology and health federal support, focusing on the organizational models for the missions of those science-support organizations. Potential strengths of government-supported R&D (selection neutrality and long-range focus) as well as concerns (peer review tending toward incremental progress not breakthroughs and disconnect from application) will be discussed. The focus will be first on the post-WWI organization and the ideologies of federal science support that evolved on in that period, then the transformation of science during WWII under Vannevar Bush and Alfred Loomis, and the creation of the postwar science agencies, with a particular focus on the National Science Foundation.
(from ocw.mit.edu)
| Class 5 - The Innovation System at the Institutional Level and ... (Part 1) |
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