Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes
- http://www.cspo.org
- A non-profit think tank that works with the U.S. Congress on issues involving science policies and their effects on society. Includes issues papers and analyses on current topics.
Federation of American Scientists
- http://www.fas.org/index.html
- Involved in a variety of projects, including monitoring arms sales and weapons development, cyberstrategy, intelligence reform, military analysis, nuclear weapons, space policy, and monitoring emerging diseases.
Foresight: Making the future work for you
- http://www.foresight.gov.uk/
- The UK Foresight programme is managed by the Office of Science and Technology and brings together key people, knowledge and ideas to look beyond normal commercial time horizons to identify potential opportunities from new science and technologies and actions to help realise those opportunities.
Gender, Science and Technology Gateway
- http://gstgateway.wigsat.org/
- Global web portal presented by the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD). Policy recommendations and resources pertaining to sustainable development that addresses gender inequality.
Geology & Public Policy
- http://www.geosociety.org/geopolicy/
- Join the list, serve or geology in the Government Mentor Program. Be a Congressional Science Fellow. Congressional and federal actions which affect the geoscience community.
Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities
- http://www.academy.ac.il
- Promoting scientific excellence, providing advice to the government on scientific issues of national importance, maintaining scientific relations with similar bodies worldwide, and publishing scholarly works.
Issues in Science & Technology
- http://www.issues.org/
- Journal published by the National Academy Press (U.S.) - Publicly available archives going back many years from influential people in US government science policy.
National Science Board
- http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/
- The National Science Board is the US science policy advisor to the President and the Congress. Their homepage contains many documents on the US science and technology policy.
SEAMLESS (EU project)
- http://www.seamless-ip.org
- System for environmental and agriculture modelling, for assessment of how future alternative agricultural and environmental polices affect sustainable development in Europe.
Space Policy Project
- http://www.fas.org/spp/
- Information and analysis on civil and military space issues, policies and programs. Covers a variety of topics including life on Mars, advanced aircraft, Russian aerospace, Challenger accident, space weapons, exploration, and links.
Technology Policy & Assessment Center
- http://www.tpac.gatech.edu/
- This Georgia Institute of Technology Center engages in interdisciplinary research and analysis of technology-intensive issues occurring at the interface of engineering, management and technology policy.
Technopolis
- http://www.technopolis.co.uk/
- An innovation policy consultancy, which specialises in the evaluation, comparative analysis and implementation of government science and technology policy and SME support programmes.
The Science Foresight Project
- http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/foresight
- The first completely Internet-based international science foresight activity. The goal was to identify emerging research developments in the physical and engineering sciences using experts selected by purely objective methods.
The rise of technocapitalism
- http://www.technocapitalism.com
- Prof. Suarez-Villa on technocapitalism, its sources and phenomena, continuous invention and innovation, networks, the experimental firm, innovative capacity, technological eras.
U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy
- http://www.ostp.gov/
- In the Executive Office of the President. Current and archived information about policy on fundamental science, education and scientific literacy, investment in applied research, and international cooperation.
