Conference: Science and Technology Policy: Systems Approaches to Research and Practice GRC/GRS

科学技术（S&amp；T）在复杂和不确定的环境中进行研究和部署。这些环境包括来自自然世界、人类创造的世界和社会文化背景的相互作用组件的系统。由于嵌入S&amp；T的系统中多个相互作用元素的复杂性，S&amp；T的影响并不总是可以预测甚至理解的。此外，如何在技术部署的上游以最好的方式管理科学和技术，通常不是显而易见的。通过更好地理解这些系统及其内部的相互作用，可以更好地设计和执行标准普尔的政策。例如，可以识别敏感的系统组件、反馈回路或杠杆点，并将其作为决策或未来数据收集的目标。然而，系统研究是困难的。对标准税收政策体系的全面理解需要学者、从业者和利益相关者的多学科和多样化的观点，从科学和实践的角度来审视它们。戈登研究会议（GRC）为展示和讨论自然科学和物理科学的前沿研究提供了一个国际论坛，旨在最大限度地提高与会者之间的生产力互动。75年来，它一直被视为世界上最重要的学术会议。2014年标准与税收政策GRC：研究与实践的系统方法（2014年8月10日至15日）将解决标准与税收政策系统研究与实践相关的挑战和机遇。戈登研究研讨会（GRS）将于2014年8月9日至10日在2014年标准普尔税政策GRC之前举行。GRS为研究生和那些刚开始职业生涯的人创建了一个论坛，让他们展示自己的工作，并接受该领域更有经验的专业人士的指导。这种类型的会议是培训的重要组成部分，因为参与者可以获得作为演讲者、讨论领导者和组织者的宝贵领导经验。GRS参与者还参加GRC并展示海报，使他们能够与杰出的s&p政策学者进行互动。GRS和GRC都明确地促进了不同群体的参与，包括妇女、未被充分代表的少数民族、来自发展中国家的学者和多个部门代表（政府、非营利组织、工业、学术界、智库等）。会议将有助于增加这些团体在实地的存在。更广泛的影响：本次会议将改善科技政策领域的学术研究，并有助于利用知识在公共政策领域进行创新，这符合美国国家科学基金会科学政策科学计划的两个关键目标。会议将对标准与税收政策的决策产生积极的下游影响，将有助于更好地界定标准与税收政策领域，并将有助于为重要的未解问题制定研究议程。GRS/GRC预计将增加研究生和年轻学者对科技政策（包括科学政策的科学）领域的兴趣，并在许多情况下改变他们的职业生涯。

Science and technology (S&T) are studied and deployed in complex and uncertain environments. These environments include systems of interacting components coming from the natural world, human-created world, and socio-cultural contexts. Because of the complexity of multiple interacting elements of systems in which S&T are embedded, the impacts of S&T are not always predictable or even understood. Furthermore, how to govern science and technology in the best manner possible, upstream of technological deployment, is not usually obvious. Through better understanding these systems and interactions within them, policies for S&T can be better designed and executed. For example, sensitive system components, feedback loops, or leverage points can be identified and targeted for policy-making or future data collection. Yet, systems research is difficult. A holistic understanding of S&T policy systems requires the multi-disciplinary and diverse perspectives of, scholars, practitioners, and stakeholders to examine them from scientific and practical standpoints. Gordon Research Conferences (GRC) provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of frontier research in the natural and physical sciences designed to maximize productive interaction between attendees. For over 75 years they, have been viewed as the world's premier scholarly meetings. The 2014 GRC on S&T Policy: Systems Approaches to Research and Practice (August 10-15, 2014) will address the challenges and opportunities associated with systems research and practice in S&T Policy. A Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) will precede the 2014 GRC on S&T policy and take place on Aug 9-10, 2014. The GRS creates a forum for graduate students and those starting their careers to present their work and receive mentoring by more experienced professionals in the field. This type of conference is an important component of training, as participants gain valuable leadership experience as speakers, discussion leaders, and organizers. GRS participants also attend the GRC and present posters, allowing them to interact with prominent S&T policy scholars. Both the GRS and GRC, explicitly promote participation by diverse communities, including women, under-represented minorities, scholars from developing countries, and multiple sector-representatives (government, non-profits, industry, academe, think-tanks, et al). The conference will serve to increase the presence of these groups in the field.Broader Impacts:The conference will improve scholarship within S&T policy and help to harness the knowledge to innovate in public-policy domains, matching two key goals of the NSF Science of Science Policy program. The conference will have positive downstream effects on decision-making about S&T, will help to better define the field of S&T policy, and will assist in setting an research agenda for important unanswered questions. The GRS/GRC is expected to increase graduate-student and young-scholar interest in the field of S&T Policy (including the Science of Science Policy), and in many cases, to change the course of their careers.