Science and Technology in the USA: Longman Guide to World Science and Technology

Teich, Albert H., and Pace, Jill H.

ISBN 10: 0582900611 / ISBN 13: 9780582900615

Published by Longman, Burnt Mill, Harlow, U.K., 1986

About this Item

24 cm, 408 pages, figures, tables, appendices, index, sticker residue on front board. The earlier edition of this book appeared in 1975. Albert H. Teich has been Director of Science and Policy Programs at the venerable American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1990 and has held positions at George Washington University, the State University of New York, and Syracuse University. He currently chairs the Advisory Board of the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech, serves on advisory boards at Columbia University and the Loka Institute, and is Codirector of the new Center for Innovation Policy Research and Education in Budapest. A widely quoted, well-known author and speaker on science and technology policy, Dr. Teich is an advisory board member for several scientific journals and a consultant to various companies and organizations. Dr. Teich holds a BS in physics and a PhD in political science, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Science and Technology in the USA: Longman Guide to World Science and Technology
• Publisher: Longman, Burnt Mill, Harlow, U.K.
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0582900611
• ISBN 13: 9780582900615
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Updated Edition.
• Condition: very good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

(SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE USA charts the major r&d programmes now underway in the USA. and names the major laboratories in that country. This book is the first to present between one set of covers the major US scientific and technical r&d endeavours. It is the fifth volume in the Longman Guide to World Science and Technology
The book commences with chapters on demography, organization of science and technology, and policy and finance for science and technology. This is followed by chapters on science and technology capabilities and activities in government, in higher education, industry and nonprofit institutions. Chapters follow on topic agriculture, biomedicine. energy, environment, aerospace, defence, physical sciences and engineering, and social and behavioural sciences. The book concludes with important accounts of associations, societies, and academies, international cooperation in science and technology, and scientific and technical information.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE USA is aimed at businessmen who need to be better informed about US science and technology network, at r&d administrators, at grant seekers, at job seekers, at industrial market researchers, and those interested in science policy and science politics.
Albert H. Teich is Head. Office of Public Sector Programs at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Jill Pace is executive director of the National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators. The contributors Edward Hunter. National Center for Health Jane Engert. School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Yale Rachel Levinson. National Institutes of Robert Quinn. US Environmental Protection Kathy H. Conrad. National Society of Professional Reid Adler. an attorney at Lowe. King. Price and Dennis Mcintosh.