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.
CSPO are currently conducting projects that focus on three general problems:
- choosing between different types of research:
- new science policy
- science, technology, and destiny
- a societal outcomes map for health research
- understanding the uneven advance of knowledge
- designing research programs to match knowledge creation with knowledge needs:
- extracting societal benefit from earth systems research
- prediction in public policy
- an outcome-based extreme events research agenda
- nanotechnology and society
- basic research in service of public objectives
- science and public value structural barriers to scientific careers