{"product_id":"pioneering-progress-isbn-9780262549448","title":"Pioneering Progress","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn expert exploration of the foundations of America’s science and technology policies, and the dynamics of its innovation system.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy study science and technology policy? What role does innovation play, and how do we foster it? Economics tells us technological innovation drives economic growth and societal well-being, but technology is always a double-edged sword—great technological advances offer both opportunities and threats. In \u003ci\u003ePioneering Progress\u003c\/i\u003e, William Bonvillian explains the complex science and technology innovation system and discusses the challenges of emerging industrial policies. Drawing on in-depth case studies on critical areas such as energy, computing, advanced manufacturing, and health, with an emphasis on the needed public policy and the federal government R\u0026amp;D role in those systems, Bonvillian reviews the foundations of economic growth theory, innovation systems theory, and innovation organization theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBonvillian, a highly respected expert who has worked as a deputy assistant secretary of transportation in the federal government and a senior advisor in Congress, reviews a new theory of direct and indirect economic factors in the innovation system. He describes the innovation-based competitive and advanced manufacturing challenges now facing the US economy, reviews comparative efforts in other nations, studies the varied models for how federal science and technology mission agencies are organized, and explores the growth of public-private partnership and industrial policy models as a way for science mission agencies to pursue mission agendas. \u003ci\u003ePioneering Progress\u003c\/i\u003e places particular emphasis on the organization and role of medical science and energy innovation agencies and how we can address the gaps in the health, energy, and advanced production innovation economic models.Contents\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Why of This Book\u003cbr\u003e1   Economic Growth Theory and Direct Innovation Factors\u003cbr\u003e2   Innovation Systems and Direct and Indirect Innovation Factors\u003cbr\u003e3   The Origins of American Innovation Organization\u003cbr\u003e4   Crossing the “Valley of Death” between Research and Development\u003cbr\u003e5   Innovation by Great Groups\u003cbr\u003e6   The DARPA Model for Innovation\u003cbr\u003e7   Bringing Innovation to Legacy Sectors\u003cbr\u003e8   Examining Life Sciences Innovation\u003cbr\u003e9   Examining the Advanced Manufacturing Challenge\u003cbr\u003e10   Examining Energy Technology Development\u003cbr\u003e11   U.S. Workforce Needs and Workforce Education\u003cbr\u003e12   Emergence of Industrial Innovation Policy\u003cbr\u003e13   Toward a New Industrial Innovation Policy Infrastructure\u003cbr\u003e14   Core Findings and New Steps\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures and Tables\u003cbr\u003eIndex“A broad, comprehensive, and timely examination of American science and technology policy.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChoice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePioneering Progress \u003c\/i\u003eis clearly the summation of decades of life experience in the technology innovation sector... A must-read for anyone interested in science and technology policy.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Fancy Comma\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Bonvillian, a scholar of federal policy, shares his insights about its role in promoting innovation, the source of economic growth. Fascinating stories and factual summaries about science, engineering, manufacturing, energy, health, and education make it an interesting and important read.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Phillip A. Sharp, Institute Professor Emeritus, MIT; Nobel Prize in Medicine and\/or Physiology, 1993; cofounder of Biogen and Alnylam\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This tour de force on American science and technology dives deep into debates over innovation policy. Bonvillian brings analysis and vision only someone embedded both in Washington and in academia could attain.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Suzanne Berger, Institute Professor, MIT; author of \u003ci\u003eHow We Compete\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMaking in America: From Innovation to Market\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This highly authoritative book addresses not only the principles and practices underpinning science and technology policy but, most impressively, how we might do it better.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Professor Sir Michael Gregory, CBE; Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering; Founding Head of the Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge University\u003c\/b\u003eWilliam B. Bonvillian is Lecturer at MIT and Senior Director for Special Projects at MIT’s Office of Digital Learning. He is the coauthor of five books on innovation policy. He was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is a member of the Babbage Forum on industrial innovation policy at Cambridge University and the Polaris Advisory Council for the GAO’s science and technology policy program, and was previously Chair of the standing Committee on Science and Engineering Policy at the AAAS.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305228292325,"sku":"NP9780262549448","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262549448.jpg?v=1767734802","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/pioneering-progress-isbn-9780262549448","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}