caa a22 4500 397500432 CHVBK 20180308164531.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199502 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/spp/22.1.19 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/spp/22.1.19 Vonortas Nicholas S. Center for International Science and Technology Policy and Department of Economics, The George Washington University, 2130 H Street, NW, Suite 714, Washington, DC 20052, USA New directions for US science and technology policy: the view from the R&D assessment front [Elektronische Daten] [Nicholas S Vonortas] In a significant reversal of traditional priorities, the current US Administration has called for more coordinated S&T decision-making and a progressive shift in government funding toward civilian and dual-use technologies. This creates the need for afresh look at the sprawling system of federal R&D impact assessment. In order to make the system commensurate with the proclaimed objective of economic competitiveness, the case of a more streamlined evaluation mechanism based on (socio)economic principles of value comes in sight. Implementation of such a system, however, may easily stumble on political disagreements concerning its appropriateness and feasibility, disagreements among experts on how to go about it, agency inexperience in applying such methods, and opposition by other organized interest groups. Failure to implement a coherent decision-support system will be detrimental to achieving the ambitious goals of the new S&T plan. © Beech Tree Publishing 1995 Science and Public Policy Beech Tree Publishing 22/1(1995-02), 19-28 0302-3427 22:1<19 1995 22 spp https://doi.org/10.1093/spp/22.1.19 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/spp/22.1.19 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Vonortas Nicholas S. Center for International Science and Technology Policy and Department of Economics, The George Washington University, 2130 H Street, NW, Suite 714, Washington, DC 20052, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Science and Public Policy Beech Tree Publishing 22/1(1995-02), 19-28 0302-3427 22:1<19 1995 22 spp Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 342927949 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford