On June 12-14, 2012, the Board on Global Science and Technology held an international, multidisciplinary workshop in Washington, D.C., to explore the challenges in intelligent human-machine collaboration (IH-MC), particularly as…

Focuses on native cereals in Africa, including African rice, finger millet, fonio, pearl millet, sorghum, tef, and other cultivated and wild grains. This book dispels myths, often based on Western…

Soil erosion is among the most chronic environmental and economic burdens. Vetiver, a little-known tropical grass, offers one practical and inexpensive way to control erosion on a huge scale. This…

NASA is a global leader in aeronautics research and development aEURO fostering advances in aviation safety and emissions, propulsion technology, and many other areas. And the agency’s Aeronautics Research Mission…

Intangible assets–which include computer software, research and development (R&D), intellectual property, workforce training, and spending to raise the efficiency and brand identification of firms–comprise a subset of services, which, in…

To mark the opening of a study of Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) convened a symposium providing…

Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management continue to promise further gains…

A committee under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), is conducting a study of selected state and regional programs in order to identify best…