By Stephen Ezell
Not long ago, America’s global leadership in technology innovation was taken as a given. Research from US corporate, academic, and government laboratories reeled off a string of transformative innovations, ranging from transistors to genetic sequencing. But other countries have since closed the innovation gap, and in many cases far outpaced the US.
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By David Goldston & Josh Trapani
The use of science in the formulation of regulatory policy has been a political flashpoint in the U.S. in recent years. While the issue came to a head and garnered more public attention during the Bush administration, some of the problems at the intersection of science and policy are systemic; they will not magically vanish with a change of administrations or a shift in the composition of the Congress.
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