Science Policy in a Changing Environment: Issues and Strategies in Agency Adaptation

本项目由探索性研究小额拨款资助。它的基本假设是，由于冷战的结束、全球化、对政府经济和效率的追求、对跨机构和政府合作的需求增加以及私营部门作用的扩大和其他趋势，国家科学政策正在发生转变。美国国家科学院（NAS）、美国科学与发展协会（AAAS）和国会的一些报告明确指出，变革管理是21世纪初冷战后联邦研发机构面临的主要挑战。然而，这些报告笼统地对待科学政策，并没有调查正在经历变化的机构正在做什么。这项建议的目的是从公共行政领域的角度探讨联邦各研究和发展机构如何适应它们面临的新的优先事项和压力。在华盛顿进行实地工作（采访和档案研究）之后，PI准备了一份“范围界定文件”，以框定联邦科学管理人员面临的主要新问题及其解决这些问题的策略。在这篇范围界定论文的基础上，将设计和提议一个由科学政策学者和实践者参加的研讨会/会议。讲习班/会议将讨论和阐明政府与科学和技术关系中最重要的问题。它可以帮助政策和管理，也可以刺激进一步的研究。然而，要达到这一点（会议的划定），需要在这个奖项下进行探索性研究。

This project is supported by a Small Grant for Exploratory Research. It's basic assumption is that a transition is taking place in national science policy due to the end of the Cold War, globalization, the quest for economy and efficiency in government, increased demands for cooperation across agencies and governments and the enlarged role of the private sector and other trends. A number of reports by NAS, AAAS, and Congress make it clear that the management of change is a major challenge facing the federal research and developmentestablishment in the post-Cold War, early 21st-century era. However, these reports treat science policy in broad brush, and do not investigate what the agencies experiencing change are doing. The objective of this proposal is to explore, from the perspective of the field of public administration, how the federal various research and development agencies are adapting to new priorities and pressures facing them. After conducting field work in Washington (interviews and archival research), the PI prepares a "scoping paper" to frame the principal new issues facing federal science managers and their strategies in addressing them. On the basis of this scoping paper, a workshop/conference involving science policy scholars and practitioners will be designed and proposed. The workshop/conference will address and illuminate issues of utmost importance in the relation of government to science and technology. It can aid policy and its administration, as well as stimulate further research. However, getting to this point (the delineation of a conference), requires the exploratory research carried out under this award.