Formulating policy on sciences

Synonyms:

Analysing science agenda
Developing technology proposals

Description:

Systematically investigating scientific and technological activities and their function within society; in particular, policymaking in scientific and technological fields, and with the interrelationship between policymaking, cultural values and societal goals.

Implementation:

The implementation of science policy is a deliberate and coherent attempt to promote a basis for national and international decisionmaking influencing the size, institutional structure, resources and creativity of scientific research in relation especially to its application and public consequences.

Broader:

Applying science
Developing policy
Studying public policy
Developing effective policies
Enabling integrated agenda processes
Promoting scientific and technology culture
Enhancing scientific and technological research

Narrower:

Using scientific elitism
Requiring scientific testing
Establishing codes of practice for science
Establishing scientific planning procedures
Conducting research on natural resources policy
Developing policy for conservation of biodiversity
Acknowledging roles of both pure and applied science

Facilitated by:

Promoting road safety
Studying criminal use of science
Promoting coordinated telecommunications
Researching effects of fiscal policy on innovation of environmental technologies

Organizations:

International Science Policy Foundation

References:

Freeman, Christopher: Technology Policy and Economic Performance: lessons from Japan
Forsuth, David J C: Technology Policy for Small Developing Countries
United Nations: Science and Technology for Development: proposals for the Second Development Decade
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development: Report of Ad Hoc Expert Group on Technology Policies in Open Developing Country Economies

Subjects:

Fundamental Sciences → Analytics
Technology → Technology
Science → Science
Development → Development
Policy-making → Policy

Type Classification:

C: Cross-sectoral strategies

Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:

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