Science policy
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Science policy is concerned with the allocation of resources for the conduct of science towards the goal of best serving the public interest. Topics include the funding of science, the careers of scientists, and the translation of scientific discoveries into technological innovation to promote commercial product development, competitiveness, economic growth and economic development. Science policy focuses on knowledge production and role of knowledge networks, collaborations, and the complex distributions of expertise, equipment, and know-how. Understanding the processes and organizational context of generating novel and innovative science and engineering ideas is a core concern of science policy. Science policy topics include weapons development, health care and environmental monitoring.
Science policy thus deals with the entire domain of issues that involve science. A large and complex web of factors influences the development of science and engineering that includes government science policymakers, private firms (including both national and multi-national firms), social movements, media, non-governmental organizations, universities, and other research institutions. In addition, science policy is increasingly international as defined by the global operations of firms and research institutions as well as by the collaborative networks of non-governmental organizations and of the nature of scientific inquiry itself.
See also
- Big Science
- Evidence-based policy
- Funding bias
- Funding of science
- History of military science
- History of science policy
- List of books about the politics of science
- List of funding opportunity databases
- Metascience
- Open access
- Operations research
- Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Patent
- Politicization of science
- Right to science and culture
- Science of science policy
- Small Science
- Self-Organized Funding Allocation
- Intellectual property policy
