Abstract
Autumn may be cool by nature's laws, but the season is shaping up as a hot time in the politically turbulent world of technology policy. Two developments raised the temperature last week. One was presentation before Congress' Joint Economic Committee of a report by a blue-ribbon panel urging drastic changes in the government's approach to supporting commercially innovative technologies. Issued by the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, & Government, based in New York City, the report calls for broadening the mandate of the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Security Council to include both military and civilian technological programs and strategies related to economic security. Far more incendiary was news—kept under cover during recent weeks—that the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy has decided to turn its back on the one policy innovation the technology policy community was hanging its hopes on: establishment of a Critical Technologies Institut...
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