Strategic Science in the Public Interest

by G. Bruce Doern

The past twenty years have seen considerable shifts and struggles in 'government science' - that is, in the way the state funds, supports, regulates, conducts and uses scientific and technological activity. Focusing on federal labs and agencies, Strategic Science in the Public Interest explores how these labs have been located within, and often buried by, the larger commercially-focused federal innovation agenda. G. Bruce Doern and Jeffrey S. Kinder...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802088538
• ISBN13: 9780802088536
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher