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CSTED: Core Programs

Economics Program

Science & Technology Policy Program

Economics Program

The Economics Program within CSTED provides top quality research, analysis, and advice to business and government clients seeking to make sound decisions and improve competitiveness in a changing economic, technology, and policy environment.

We apply our broad expertise to develop strategies to address business, economic, technological, human resources, financial, and social issues. Our work often includes helping businesses become more competitive, facilitating public-private partnerships to strengthen economic foundations, building new constituencies for community problem solving, designing new institutions, evaluating current policies and programs, and providing technical assistance in implementing new strategies.

Policymakers and Community Development Professionals:

  • Is your region benefiting from the wealth and opportunities generated in the New Economy?
  • All you doing all the right things to attract investment and create value-adding jobs to your community? Where do you stand vis-à-vis your competitors?
  • Is your community taking advantage of rapid technological changes and opportunities, or are you overwhelmed by them?

CEOs and Business Strategists:

  • Where are technology, economic, and social trends taking your product, your customers, and your market?
  • Is technology creating new opportunities for your company? Is technology driving your business strategy?
  • How do you capture value in the New Economy?

If you are a decision-maker facing these questions, SRI's Economics Program has much to offer your business or community.

Science and Technology Policy Program

The Science and Technology Policy Program, a Washington-based research unit of SRI International, is structured to provide decision-makers with interdisciplinary research and analysis concerning major national and international scientific and technological (S&T) issues. Commissioned studies, frequently based on the generation and analysis of primary source data, are designed to provide both future policy options and objective assessments of past efforts. The program uses a multi-dimensional research approach, integrating the analysis of S&T policy formation, R&D infrastructure, and resources - using quantitative measures of personnel, expenditures, and scientific research outputs - together with evaluation by technical experts in the fields under consideration.

Research Areas

The National Science Foundation has been a source of major support for objective analytic assessments of science activities in countries and regions throughout the world. Other sponsors have included the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Commerce, the Office of Naval Research, and the Department of State:

  • Worldwide S&T assessments and analyses of national S&T policies, programs, and capabilities, both in the public and private sectors. Analyses have been completed on Brazil, France, India, Japan, South Korea, Latin America, Taiwan, Germany, Australia, and others. These analyses often include examination of the role of science and technology in national foreign policy.
  • Assessments of international, bilateral cooperative S&T programs between the United States and Brazil, Israel, Italy, Japan, Australia, Saudi Arabia, and the former Soviet Union.
  • Analyses and comparisons of national R&D expenditures and research systems in France, India, Japan, Latin America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and the former Soviet Union.
  • Science and engineering personnel studies, examining such issues as the impact of foreign science and engineering students in the United States, the international mobility of U.S. and foreign scientists and engineers (particularly those in emerging scientific specialties), and participation of U.S. and foreign personnel in large-scale research facilities in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
  • Reports on worldwide S&T information dissemination, including an assessment of potential methods for improving access to government-generated information about international S&T developments and a feasibility study which considered an electronic bulletin board as a means of improving national and international communication on topics of scientific importance.
  • Applying computer modeling of scientific-literature databases to S&T policy assessments of, for example, the analysis of research activity in developing countries; NSF cooperative science programs in Italy and India; the identification of strong research activity in German science; the identification of European centers of materials research activity; the examination of scientific mobility in biotechnology, especially between universities and industry; the generation of profiles describing private and governmental organizations' research portfolios; and the development of indicators related to S&T/economic development linkages.

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