INNOVATION

Issue 2: Science’s Troubled Legacy

Enabling Economic Recovery Through Innovation

Download the entire Fall/Winter 2008/2009 issue (.pdf)

Even before the inaugural edition of Science Progress appeared in print this past spring, we at the journal and our companion website already had our eyes set on the inauguration this month of the next president of the United States. At the time, we had no idea who would win the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations, but what we did know was this—whoever became the 44th president would need thoughtful guidance on the complex public policy questions we present to you today in this biannual edition of the journal Science Progress.

That’s why Science Progress and our parent organization, the Center for American Progress, in early 2008 began preparing to convene two roundtable task forces, bringing together experts from both sides of the political aisle and from an array of different private- and public-sector perspectives, to discuss parent reform and innovation. One taskforce set out to identify the ingredients needed to incubate regional centers of innovation so that university-based scientific research can result in broad-based economic prosperity. The second sought to delineate the parameters of the possible in patent reform—one of the key issues the incoming Obama administration and the 111th Congress will have to tackle this year after the effort fell short in 2008. This issue of Science Progress presents their recommendations:

From Many Inventors, One Nation (.pdf)
By Jonathan Moreno

Tackling Complex Issues for New Policymakers (.pdf)
By Ed Paisley

Innovation

Place Matters (.pdf)
Innovation Springs from Many Seeds, But Soil Is Equally Important
By Maryann Feldman

The Federal Role in Catalyzing Innovation (.pdf)
Beyond the Beltway and Through the Networked Economy
By Richard Seline and Steven Miller

Pittsburgh’s Targeted Incubator (.pdf)
Taking Innovation to the Next Level
By James F. Jordan and Paul L. Kornblith

Creating a National Innovation Foundation (.pdf)
Economic Prosperity Rests on Diverse Technology
By Robert Atkinson and Howard Wial

Benchmarking Foreign Innovation (.pdf)
The United States Needs to Learn from Other Industrialized Democracies
By Stephen Ezell

British Innovation Policy (.pdf) (online exclusive)
Lessons for the United States
By Will Straw

Regional Centers of Innovation Task Force Participants

Government Contracting

Science’s Troubled Legacy (.pdf)
Time for a 21st-Century Re-envisioning of 20th-Century Government Contracting Rules Designed to Boost Scientific Innovation
By Dan Guttman

Patent Reform

Tackling the Challenge of Patent Reform (.pdf)
Recommendations for the Obama administration and Congress
By Rick Weiss

Improving the Effectiveness of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (.pdf)
By Gerald J. Mossinghoff and Stephen G. Kunin

Patent Trolls Erode the Foundations of the U.S. Patent System (.pdf)
By Daniel P. McCurdy

Global Patent Protection (.pdf)
The International Patent System and the New Administration
By Bruce A. Lehman

Online Supporting Material

Regional Centers of Innovation 101

Patent Reform 101

Innovation Policies for the 21st Century
Patent Reform and Support for Regional Centers of Innovation Are Critical
By Will Straw

Tags: Innovation, intellectual property

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