Abstract
Policies that predict and direct innovative research might seem to be a practical impossibility, says David H. Guston, but social sciences point to a solution. With US policy on nano-technology as the main source of examples, David Guston's Commentary outlines a vision of an ideal government innovation policy, in a contribution to our Innovations series. A key problem is the inherent dilemma that policy arrives too late to affect the past, but too early to understand the future. Guston's solution is 'anticipatory governance', a concept outlined on http://www.nanohub.org/resources/3270/0 . This approach, he says, retains an element of revolutionary thinking, yet steers policy towards goals that are prudently and democratically arrived at.
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