Exploring the Foundations: Basics of Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy

Our future will be in significant part determined by public policy decisions by companies and government about science and technology, yet few know how this system works—it is truly a "black box" for most. Meanwhile, we increasingly understand that science- and technology-based innovation is deeply connected to society’s economic growth and its corresponding ability to generate societal wellbeing and to solve big societal challenges like climate change or the need for quality jobs. So the public importance of science is growing.

In this talk, Bill Bonvillian, a lecturer at MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab, examines some of the basics of the public policy behind, and the government’s role in, the science- and technology-based innovation system.

This event was co-sponsored by Duke's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and the Duke Initiative for Science & Society.