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Additional Materials from New York Academy of Sciences: Working Papers
Title: Science Technology and the Economic Future
Authors: John F. Ahearne, Robert B. Bell, Mark Bohannon, Daniel Burton, Joel E. Cohen, Kenneth W. Dam, Stephen M. Drezner, Robert W. Galvin, John H. Gibbons, F. William Hawley, Stephen A. Herzenberg, Shelley Lau, William J. McDonough, Robert K. Morris, J. Ian Morrison, Rodney W. Nichols, Michel Oksenberg, Thomas R. Pickering, Arati Prabhakar, Susan Raymond, Walter I. Rickard, Jon Roush, Mark Schaefer, William J Spencer, Robert Stempel, Donald E. Stokes, James A. Thomson, Jane Wales, Robert S. Walker, Victor Wouk
Date: February 1998Title: Science-Based Economic Development
Authors: Titus Adeboye, Eliene. Augenbraun, Richard Bendis, Lewis M. Branscomb, Warren C. Bull, Nancy Carson, Micheal Chege, Babasola Chinsman, Richard S. Combes, John Desmond, P.J. D. Drenth, Susan Engelking, Ewa Gajeska-Blaisedell, Grace Goodell, Victoria Hamilton, Stephen D. Huntington, Soodursun Jugessur, Ousman Kane, Geraldine A. Kenney-Wallace, Robert M. Kidd, Young Gul Kim, Rustam Lalkaka, W. Henry Lambright, Alister McIntyre, Walter H. Plosila, Susan Raymond, Janie Rutherford, Michael A. Salvato, William J. Todd, Charles R. Warren, Anders Wijkman, J. Trent Williams
Date: December 1996