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Center Theme: Providing new policy alternatives for science and technology policy decision makers
Center research seeks to expand and/or evaluate policy alternatives available to science and technology policy decision makers. A science and technology policy decision maker is a person, group, or institution with responsibility for making important decisions about the substance or process of science and technology. Examples of science and technology policy decision makers include people who allocate resources among research areas and people who prescribe norms for the conduct of research, such as rules for using human subjects. This perspective distinguishes the Center’s work from that of policy advocacy groups, which seek to reduce available alternatives in the political process.