Is Innovation China’s Next Great Leap Forward? Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/34-4/ The best minds on the most important topics. Fri, 15 Jul 2022 23:12:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Is Innovation China’s Next Great Leap Forward? Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/34-4/ 32 32 From the Hill – Summer 2018 https://issues.org/from-the-hill-15/ https://issues.org/from-the-hill-15/#respond Mon, 10 Sep 2018 20:13:40 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15739 The Senate Appropriations Committee’s Energy & Water Development spending bill, approved in late May on a 30-1 vote, continues congressional pushback against the sharp Department of Energy (DOE) research and development (R&D)… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/from-the-hill-15/feed/ 0 Can the Public Be Trusted? https://issues.org/editors-journal-can-the-public-be-trusted/ https://issues.org/editors-journal-can-the-public-be-trusted/#respond Mon, 10 Sep 2018 20:07:10 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15741 In the age of MEGO (my eyes glazed over) and TMI (too much information), scientists who communicate with the public must tread a fine line between full disclosure and information overload. With… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/editors-journal-can-the-public-be-trusted/feed/ 0 Keeping the Lights On https://issues.org/book-review-keeping-the-lights-on/ https://issues.org/book-review-keeping-the-lights-on/#respond Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:48:23 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15765 In September 2017, two hurricanes struck the US island of Puerto Rico, crippling its electric power grid. Because Puerto Rico is a major manufacturing site for medical supplies, the nation’s hospitals soon… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/book-review-keeping-the-lights-on/feed/ 0 The Natural Gas Grid Needs Better Monitoring https://issues.org/the-natural-gas-grid-needs-better-monitoring/ https://issues.org/the-natural-gas-grid-needs-better-monitoring/#respond Tue, 04 Sep 2018 15:58:50 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15759 We are familiar with cascading electric grid outages such as the September 8, 2011, blackout that hit San Diego at rush hour, and the August 14, 2003, blackout that essentially shut down… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/the-natural-gas-grid-needs-better-monitoring/feed/ 0 Philosopher’s Corner: What Is Science in the National Interest? https://issues.org/perspective-philosophers-corner-what-is-science-in-the-national-interest/ https://issues.org/perspective-philosophers-corner-what-is-science-in-the-national-interest/#respond Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:40:34 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15747 It all began in the middle of the fourth century BCE. Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics established a hierarchy of goods that laid the foundation for today’s science policy debates. A good pursued for… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/perspective-philosophers-corner-what-is-science-in-the-national-interest/feed/ 0 Varieties of Technological Experience https://issues.org/book-review-varieties-of-technological-experience/ https://issues.org/book-review-varieties-of-technological-experience/#respond Mon, 20 Aug 2018 15:53:28 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15763 For roughly two thousand years, from 500 BCE to 1500 CE, China was the most advanced scientific civilization in the world. During this period, the Chinese intellectual tradition was more knowledgeable about… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/book-review-varieties-of-technological-experience/feed/ 0 Self-Driving Cars: How Soon Is Soon Enough? https://issues.org/perspective-self-driving-cars-how-soon-is-soon-enough/ https://issues.org/perspective-self-driving-cars-how-soon-is-soon-enough/#respond Mon, 13 Aug 2018 19:58:08 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15745 Some observers tout autonomous (self-driving) vehicles by claiming that a computer is “simply a better driver than a human,” as a recent Time magazine article put it. This is not true now… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/perspective-self-driving-cars-how-soon-is-soon-enough/feed/ 0 Indicators of R&D Tax Support https://issues.org/real-numbers-indicators-of-rd-tax-support/ https://issues.org/real-numbers-indicators-of-rd-tax-support/#respond Mon, 06 Aug 2018 19:38:57 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15761 Investment in research and development (R&D) is a key driver of innovation and economic growth. In addition to funding R&D within public institutes or universities, governments within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/real-numbers-indicators-of-rd-tax-support/feed/ 0 The Limits of Dual Use https://issues.org/the-limits-of-dual-use/ https://issues.org/the-limits-of-dual-use/#respond Tue, 31 Jul 2018 16:51:55 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15757 Research and technologies designed to generate benefits for civilians that can also be used for military purposes are termed “dual use.” The concept of dual use frames and informs debates about how… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/the-limits-of-dual-use/feed/ 0 Adapting to Global Warming: Four National Priorities https://issues.org/perspective-adapting-to-global-warming-four-national-priorities/ https://issues.org/perspective-adapting-to-global-warming-four-national-priorities/#respond Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:00:56 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=15743 Global average annual temperatures have increased, and the rate of increase has accelerated, since the late nineteenth century. The extent of global warming in coming decades depends on future emissions of greenhouse… Read More

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