William Bonvillian, Director, MIT DC Office
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/11
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants should attend all sessions but it is not mandatory
Examines the public policy behind, & the government's role in science and technology-based innovation system. Emphasis placed on US S&T system, but international examples discussed. Seminar aims to equip those planning careers in and around science and technology with basic background for involvement in science policymaking.
Issues: 1) drivers behind S&T support: growth economics, direct, indirect innovation factors, innovation systems theory, the "valley of death" between R&D and public-private partnership models; 2) organizing framework behind US science agencies, and the DARPA model as an alternative; 3) how innovation is organized when it's face-to-face; 4) barriers and challenges to health science advance; 5) the energy technology challenge - how the science/tech innovation system needs to be organized to meet it within an existing and established complex economic sector; and 6) upcoming competitiveness challenge in advanced manufacturing.
Undergraduate and graduate students from all schools are welcome
Enrollment is limited. Accepted students MUST commit to attend all sessions to earn a spot in the class
Please fill out this web form by December 11 to participate in activity:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHxJYVN_x8SbOIn6CWYprfZqGDwezqPyOlSTtGGK27CHC-VQ/viewform
Sponsor(s): Political Science, MIT Science Policy Initiative
Contact: Quantum Wei, qwei@mit.edu
Jan/22 | Mon | 09:00AM-03:00PM | 56-114 |
Jan/23 | Tue | 09:00AM-03:00PM | 56-114 |
Jan/24 | Wed | 09:00AM-03:00PM | 56-114 |
Jan/25 | Thu | 09:00AM-03:00PM | 56-114 |
Jan/26 | Fri | 09:00AM-12:00PM | 56-114 |