While my dissertation is on a more traditional kind of technology transfer, I find myself drawn more to the kind you mention. Where did you make that assertion, elsewhere in Prometheus?

As far as the S&T policy research communiy, Dan Sarewitz has written about “the failure of [the S&T policy] scholarly community to export its ideas and insights to the rest of the world.” I tend to agree, having recently asserted:

“… the community of scholars who study science, technology, and society as well as science and technology policy may face a problem of ‘technology transfer.’ That is, there is exceedingly little evidence that the well-developed understandings of the complexities associated with the production and use of science in policy and politics are appreciated to any degree by the larger community of scientists and decision makers who actually produce and use science.”

We’ll also soon take up questions of the role of policy education, which are important as well.

This would include some examination about how effectively students in the policy sciences are prepared for careers in public policy? If students in the social sciences (grad students, undergrad majors and non-majors alike) are lacking in the deep knowledge Fukuyama writes about, what kind of deep knowledge are the policy sciences providing (or not providing) to its students?

I know enough about my own ignorance not to suggest any answers, but Prometheus (as well as its writers and readers) seem well placed to try and ask these questions. They may also be able to provide support for research along those lines, or point others in the right direction.