Although science has been an incredibly powerful and revolutionary force, it is not clear whether science is suited to … performance under pressure; generally, science achieves best in its usual comfort zone of patience, caution, and slowness. But if … science is organized knowledge and acts as a guiding force for making informed decisions, it is important to understand how …

institutions and compare them with the economics funding program of the National Science Foundation. Our results indicate that …

technology development. Such is the case for example, where sophisticated manufacturing approaches are needed to exploit … promising, and high performance, material combinations along with novel and complex technology based hardware. Further, access … to adequate resources for the needed, high cost, technology development is increasingly less likely to be available from …

basically depends on material and relational goods, we show that the best-case scenarios hold when technology and social capital … technology and social interaction balance one another in fostering the growth of both the social and the private sector of the … economy. Along such tracks, technology may play a crucial role in supporting a “socially sustainable” economic growth …