Policy Studies Journal articles from June 1994

Policy Studies Journal archives from June 1994

Democracy and the policy sciences: aspirations and operations.
June 22, 1994... Introduction The policy sciences, as originally articulated by Harold Lasswell and Abraham Kaplan (Lasswell, 1951; Lasswell & Kaplan, 1950) spoke directly and eloquently to the normative role of the policy sciences' contribution to the...

The politics of HDTV in the United States. (high definition television)
June 22, 1994... Introduction The politics of high definition television (HDTV) provides a window into the world of business-government relations in a new international economic environment of intense competition among the advanced industrial nations. HDTV...

Managing the solid waste crisis: exploring the link between citizen attitudes, policy incentives, and siting landfills.
June 22, 1994... Introduction Safe and proper waste disposal in communities throughout the United States rapidly is becoming a crisis: New York City alone produces 20,000 pounds of waste per day (Hall & Kerr, 1991; United States Environmental Protection...

A model of lottery participation: demographics, context, and attitudes.
June 22, 1994... The political allure of state-sponsored lotteries is simple: they are a voluntary, and therefore "painless," means of adding revenue to state treasuries at a time when new taxes politically are more difficult than ever. Except that it was one of...

Technology transfer and public policy in an age of global economic competition: introduction to the symposium.
June 22, 1994... As a result of a number of significant recent changes in the global political and economic scene, a new policy paradigm is emerging. The central thrust of this paradigm is a pursuit of economic development in a new global economy free of the Cold...

Academic perceptions of university-firm technology transfer. (Symposium on Technology Transfer and Public Policy: Preparing for the Twenty-First Century)
June 22, 1994... Introduction Global technological competition has made technology transfer from universities to firms an important public policy issue. The policy objective is for the universities to assist firms with their innovation efforts, and in so doing...

A comparative analysis of civilian technology strategies among some nations: France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. (Symposium on Technology Transfer and Public Policy: Preparing for the Twenty-First Century)
June 22, 1994... Introduction Technology and science are commonly accepted in the leading world trading countries as being major contributors to economic and social progress. The purpose of this article is to highlight the similarities and differences among...

Moving towards an American industrial technology policy. (Symposium on Technology Transfer and Public Policy: Preparing for the Twenty-First Century)
June 22, 1994... Introduction The question of whether the government should pursue an industrial technology policy is highly controversial in the United States. The American value of encouraging free economic markets seems at odds with an explicit government...

The politics of international technology transfer: lessons from the Korean experience. (Symposium on Technology Transfer and Public Policy: Preparing for the Twenty-First Century)
June 22, 1994... Introduction The emergence of a global economy has been signalled by many in circles of policymaking and study (see, among many examples, Graham, 1992; Krugman, 1994; Young, 1988). A common theme running through such discussion is that in...

Evaluating government technology transfer: early impacts of the "Cooperative Technology Paradigm." (Symposium on Technology Transfer and Public Policy: Preparing for the Twenty-First Century)
June 22, 1994... The national laboratories are a reservoir of scientific and technological talent that can help America to compete in international markets.... Spurred in the past decade by new legislation and enlightened policies, the national laboratories have...

Technology transfer and the federal laboratories: a midterm assessment of cooperative research. (Symposium on Technology Transfer and Public Policy: Preparing for the Twenty-First Century)
June 22, 1994... Throughout the 1980s, the federal government pioneered new strategies for the commercialization of defense and other federal technologies. The goal of this effort is to increase United States technological competitiveness in the global economy....

Public policy and emerging sources of technology and technical information available to industry. (Symposium on Technology Transfer and Public Policy: Preparing for the Twenty-First Century)
June 22, 1994... Introduction and Background A number of competitive pressures are influencing industrial research in the United States today: customers are demanding higher quality and greater product diversity; technological change is occurring more rapidly;...

Defense conversion and dual-use technology: the push toward civil-military integration. (Symposium on Technology Transfer and Public Policy: Preparing for the Twenty-First Century)
June 22, 1994... The Changing Environment The world has changed. The Cold War is over and there is a new administration in Washington. The Department of Defense (DOD) is straggling to cope with various aspects of these and other profound changes. Under the...

Technology transfer and public policy: lessons from a case study. (Symposium on Technology Transfer and Public Policy: Preparing for the Twenty-First Century)
June 22, 1994... Like it or not, colleges and universities, particularly research universities, increasingly are being identified as important elements in the economic life of our nation. For some, the prospect of the academy's greater involvement in economic...

Technology transfer from university to industry: a large-scale experiment with technology development and commercialization. (Symposium on Technology Transfer and Public Policy: Preparing for the Twenty-First Century)
June 22, 1994... This article reports a large-scale technology development (TD) experiment carried out in a university setting. It addresses three general questions. First is whether TD research--that is, academic research "translated" into technological...

Losing Time: The Industrial Policy Debate.
June 22, 1994... These four books and the Clinton-Gore report touch, in varying ways, on science and technology policy, technology transfer, and the industrial policy debate. What is the government's role in promoting science and technology? How much emphasis...

Industry and Politics: United States in Comparative Perspective.
June 22, 1994... These four books and the Clinton-Gore report touch, in varying ways, on science and technology policy, technology transfer, and the industrial policy debate. What is the government's role in promoting science and technology? How much emphasis...

High tech Maneuvers: Industrial Policy Lessons of HDTV.
June 22, 1994... These four books and the Clinton-Gore report touch, in varying ways, on science and technology policy, technology transfer, and the industrial policy debate. What is the government's role in promoting science and technology? How much emphasis...

Science Policy and Politics.
June 22, 1994... These four books and the Clinton-Gore report touch, in varying ways, on science and technology policy, technology transfer, and the industrial policy debate. What is the government's role in promoting science and technology? How much emphasis...

Technology for America's Economic Growth, A New Direction to Build Economic Strength.
June 22, 1994... These four books and the Clinton-Gore report touch, in varying ways, on science and technology policy, technology transfer, and the industrial policy debate. What is the government's role in promoting science and technology? How much emphasis...

Rival Capitalists: International Competitiveness in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe.
June 22, 1994... Each book reviewed in this essay focuses, in one form or another, on the "winners and losers" emerging from the changing global economy. Will Japan resume the miraculous economic growth it enjoyed between 1945 and the late 1980s? Can the United...

Preparing for the Twenty-First Century.
June 22, 1994... Each book reviewed in this essay focuses, in one form or another, on the "winners and losers" emerging from the changing global economy. Will Japan resume the miraculous economic growth it enjoyed between 1945 and the late 1980s? Can the United...

The Elusive Transformation: Science, Technology, and the Evolution of International Politics.
June 22, 1994... Each book reviewed in this essay focuses, in one form or another, on the "winners and losers" emerging from the changing global economy. Will Japan resume the miraculous economic growth it enjoyed between 1945 and the late 1980s? Can the United...

Rival States, Rival Firms: Competition for World Markets.
June 22, 1994... Each book reviewed in this essay focuses, in one form or another, on the "winners and losers" emerging from the changing global economy. Will Japan resume the miraculous economic growth it enjoyed between 1945 and the late 1980s? Can the United...