Shaping Science and Technology Policy: The Next Generation of Research

Shaping science and technology policy: the next generation of research sample the thinking of some of the best young minds in science policy. The papers are unified by a small number of cross-cutting themes: the choices and criteria of choic about science and technology policy, standards of governance, issues of globalization, of the protean boundary between public and private. More fundamental still, these perspectives are unified by the common recognition that science policy is not so much about science per se as about the explicit shaping of our world. This shaping occurs in the settings where science itself is administered and governed (Section 1: Shaping Policy); in the processes of knowledge production (Section 2: Shaping Science); in the forces behind innovation (Section 3: Shaping Technology); and, in the drive to manipulate and transform the human species itself (Section 4: Shaping Life).