Special issue: reconciling the supply of and demand for research in the science of science and innovation policy

摘要

The articles in this special issue emerged from a joint United States/Norwegian meeting held in May 2009 in Oslo, Norway, that considered how science policy research does (or does not) support the information needs of science policy decision makers and steps that might be taken to improve such connections. The central question of the workshop was: How can scholars who study science and innovation policy contribute more effectively to the needs of policy makers facing decisions about science and innovation policy? Efforts to address these questions from a range of perspectives are found in the following five articles.