Is our Knowledge Enterprise Complex Capable of Seeding the Jobs-Creating Industries of Tomorrow?
Channel: New America
Date: 24/05/2012

Is our Knowledge Enterprise Complex Capable of Seeding the Jobs-Creating Industries of Tomorrow?

Science and technology in America have been guided by the same set of ideas for more than half a century. The conventional wisdom is that if we feed more money and more scientists into our existing "knowledge enterprise" complex, society will derive proportionately more benefits. In the face of the global economic downturn, political disarray at the national level, and protracted challenges to the nation's public health, environmental quality, industrial base, and energy system, this simplistic assumption is long overdue for a reckoning. Today's challenges demand new ways of thinking about science and technology, and the government's role in advancing them. The problem, any honest inquiry will suggest, isn't always money, or the number of scientists, but the very way we do science.

Jon Gertner - @nytmag                                                                       
Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine
Author, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

Eric Isaacs - @Argonne
Director, Argonne National Laboratory

Michael Lind - @NewAmerica                                                                     
Policy Director, Economic Growth Program, New America Foundation
 
Moderator
Jonathan Koppell - @coppasu
Dean, College of Public Programs and Director, School of Public Affairs
Arizona State University

http://www.newamerica.net/events/2012/america_s_knowledge_enterprise