Author: Board on Science

U.S. leadership in technology innovation is central to our nation's interests, including its security, economic prosperity, and quality of life. Ou...

In recent decades, production processes of intermediate and final products have been increasingly fragmented across countries in what are called gl...

Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and region...

Intangible assetswhich include computer software, research and development (R&D), intellectual property, workforce training, and spending to ra...

Research and innovation in the life sciences is driving rapid growth in agriculture, biomedical science, information science and computing, energy,...

Most of the policy discussion about stimulating innovation has focused on the federal level. This study focuses on the significant activity at the ...

In 2005, the National Research Council report Rising Above the Gathering Storm recommended a new way for the federal government to spur technologic...

Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and region...

Flexible Electronics for Security, Manufacturing, and Growth in the United States is the summary of a workshop convened in September 2010 by Policy...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct a quadrennial review of its ...

Federal laboratories play a unique role in the U.S. economy. Research and development conducted at these labs has contributed to the advancement or...