Pioneering Progress

American Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy

William B. Bonvillian

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MIT Press
26 November 2024

Politics & government

An expert exploration of the foundations of America's science and technology policies, and the dynamics of its innovation system.

An expert exploration of the foundations of America's science and technology policies, and the dynamics of its innovation system.

Why study science and technology policy? What role does innovation play, and how do we foster it? Economics tells us technological innovation drives economic growth and societal well-being, but technology is always a double-edged sword-great technological advances offer both opportunities and threats. In Pioneering Progress, William Bonvillian explains the complex science and technology innovation system and discusses the challenges of emerging industrial policies. Drawing on in-depth case studies on critical areas such as energy, computing, advanced manufacturing, and health, with an emphasis on the needed public policy and the federal government R&D role in those systems, Bonvillian reviews the foundations of economic growth theory, innovation systems theory, and innovation organization theory.

Bonvillian, a highly respected expert who has worked as a deputy assistant secretary of transportation in the federal government and a senior advisor in Congress, reviews a new theory of direct and indirect economic factors in the innovation system. He describes the innovation-based competitive and advanced manufacturing challenges now facing the US economy, reviews comparative efforts in other nations, studies the varied models for how federal science and technology mission agencies are organized, and explores the growth of public-private partnership and industrial policy models as a way for science mission agencies to pursue mission agendas. Pioneering Progress places particular emphasis on the organization and role of medical science and energy innovation agencies and how we can address the gaps in the health, energy, and advanced production innovation economic models.

By: William B. Bonvillian
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262549448
ISBN 10: 0262549441
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 26 November 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

William B. Bonvillian is Lecturer at MIT and Senior Director for Special Projects at MIT's Office of Digital Learning. He is the coauthor of five books on innovation policy. He was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is a member of the Babbage Forum on industrial innovation policy at Cambridge University and the Polaris Advisory Council for the GAO's science and technology policy program, and was previously Chair of the standing Committee on Science and Engineering Policy at the AAAS.

Reviews for Pioneering Progress: American Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy

“A broad, comprehensive, and timely examination of American science and technology policy.” —Choice “Pioneering Progress is clearly the summation of decades of life experience in the technology innovation sector... A must-read for anyone interested in science and technology policy.” —Fancy Comma