Science Technology and the Economic Future

Susan Raymond, Ed.

New York Academy of Sciences

February 1998

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Table of Contents

Preface

1. Formulating Policy

   • Steering National Security into the Next Decade: S&T as Navigational Device, Jane Wales

   • In Service to Society: Contract Between Science and Government, Donald E. Stokes

   • The Policy Crisis Over Cryptography in the Information Age: Who Says Who Can Access What?, Kenneth W. Dam

   • To Provide for the Common Defense: Issues in Technology and Defense Strategy for Future National Security, James A. Thomson

2. Assuring the Environment

   • Protecting the U.S. Environment in the Wake of Regulatory Reform: The Importance of Science, Jon Roush

   • First Forum on Science and Technology Goals: The Environment, John F. Ahearne

   • Electric Vehicles: Opportunity or Problem?, Robert B. Bell

   • Electric Vehicles and the Automotive Industry: The Implications of Emission Mandates, Robert Stempel

   • Getting from Then To Now: A Brief History of the Electric Vehicle , Victor Wouk

   • Conflicts Over World Population: Cairo and Beyond, Joel E. Cohen

   • The Economic Promise of Environmental Technologies , Mark Schaefer

3. Spurring Growth

   • Innovation at Risk: The Future of America's Research-Intensive Industry, J. Ian Morrison and William G. Pietersen

   • Achieving Economic Growth, William J. McDonough

   • Partnerships Linking Technology to Economic Growth: Case Experience from Around the Globe , Susan U. Raymond and Rodney W. Nichols

   • Integrating the Military and Civilian Technology Base: A Long and Winding Road to Where?, Stephen M. Drezner

4. Ensuring Resources

   • The Future of the National Laboratories: Navigating the Route to Renewal, Robert W. Galvin

   • Choices Amidst Change: S&T Resource Priorities for U.S. Global Leadership, John H. Gibbons

   • Science, Technology, and the 104th Congress: An Interim Report, Robert S. Walker

   • Civilian Technology for Economic Growth: The Changing Face of Federal R&D, Arati Prabhakar

   • Will the U.S. Wellspring of Technology Dry Up?, William J Spencer

5. Negotiating Global Relationships

   • R&D Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, Robert K. Morris

   • Developments in Global Trade Negotiations: A Comprehensive Subsidy Code, Mark Bohannon

   • Trade in Financial Services and Advanced Technology: Clear Issues but Elusive Policy, F. William Hawley, Stephen A. Herzenberg, and Walter I. Rickard

   • Reforms in Russia: Emerging Trends and S&T Dimensions, Thomas R. Pickering

   • China Changing: Can the U.S. Support Human Rights Without Sacrificing Sino-American Relations?, Michel Oksenberg

   • Science and Technology in Hong Kong beyond 1997: Emerging Trends and Issues, Shelley Lau

   • The Globe as the Market: The Challenge of Competitiveness for U.S. Industry, Daniel Burton