Course is built around a life cycle construct.
Explores how science and technology policies are developed in response to challenges posed by the world economy, and how other countries manage their science and technology policies. Policy A special topics course examining the interaction of technology, management, and policy issues in a specific context. The course could be organized around a technology, a company, and industrial or governmental sector, a piece of legislation, a court decision, a social issue, a time-period, a political entity, or some combination of these.