Talk:Science policy

message: This article would be greatly improved with information on how science policy is arrived at and executed in specific governments -- for instance information about NIH funding and congressional Science and Technology committees in the US. I know next to nothing about this (actually what I came here to try and learn about), and so cannot really add it myself. 69.118.254.130 01:32, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  in-practice specifics? 

message: The term science policy is often used not only to refer to the policies that affect the conduct of the science and research enterprise, but also to refer to the act of applying scientific knowledge and consensus to the development of public policies. An example would be congressional requests to the National Academies to provide scientific consensus on global warming and/or recommendations of alternative fuels. Another example is the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellowships, which place scientists in offices across the Federal government (e.g. Congress, Department of State, EPA, etc) to help inform policy processes with scientific knowledge. Hence there are two somewhat overlapping activities included in the term "science policy": policy for science and science for policy.
Gguerre (talk) 21:59, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, good point. I've made a bold rewrite of the lead; it would be great if you could review that and then see if your other definition can be more easily worked in. I sense a different structure may be in order (perhaps with the current sections as subsections of a single top-level section). My personal interest is in space policy. I don't see a place to work space policy into the current structure of this "science policy" article.... (sdsds - talk) 18:07, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other definitions of science policy 

message: Now that I've done some copyediting and seen what we have to work with, I think it's time to plan what content we *want* to see in this article.
It would be useful to brainstorm what topics we want to cover in this article.  A couple of themes I'd like to see covered are (with some US examples):
* What does science policy emcompass?
* What are the decision-making bodies which make science policy?  (e.g. the OSTP and the appropriate Congressional committees)
* What are different political positions on science policy?
* What agencies carry out science policy—both within the government (e.g. NASA) and by awarding grants? (e.g. the NSF)
* How is scientific data and expertise used in the political process?  (e.g. the United States National Academies)
I'd also like to mention the article Research funding, which focuses on private as well as government funding of research.  We should think about whether these articles should be merged or kept separate.  I'm inclined towards the latter at this point, in which case I think that article should be moved to Funding of science since it doesn't talk about non-science research funding.
We should also think about the relationship of this article to the "Science and technology in X" series of articles.  Any feedback would be helpful.  Antony–22 (talk/contribs) 05:32, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Futher planning