@article{dae0fd0331374f6986dcc72d4fba1b73,
title = "The public value of nanotechnology?",
abstract = "Science and innovation policy (SIP) is typically justified in terms of public values while SIP program assessments are typically limited to economic terms that imperfectly take into account these values. The study of public values through public value mapping (PVM) lacks widely-accepted methods for systematically identifying value structures within SIP and its public policy processes, especially when there are multiple stakeholder groups. This paper advances the study of public values in SIP using nanoscale science and engineering (NSE) policy by demonstrating that quantitative analysis of value statements can provide a credible and robust basis for policy analysis. We use content analysis of over 1,000 documents with over 100,000 pages from major contributors to the NSE policy discourse to identify and analyze a wide range of public value statements. Data analysis and reduction methods reveal a multifactor structure of public values that has been consistently cited by a range of actors in an NSE research policy network.",
keywords = "Nanotechnology, Public policy analysis, Public values, Science and technology policy",
author = "Erik Fisher and Slade, {Catherine P.} and Derrick Anderson and Barry Bozeman",
note = "Funding Information: We analyze value-laden statements using quantitative methods in a wide variety of public documents produced by major participants the formal NSE effort. To ensure a robust yet coherent data set, we consider a {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}stream{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} of functionally related policy actors that comprise a distributed decision process (Fisher et al. 2006). We thus use documents from the following subgroups: the US Congress as resource allocator; the National Science Foundation (NSF) as both resource recipient and resource allocator; and the NSF-funded NSE laboratories as both resource recipients and research policy agents. Funding Information: 2 PVM was initially developed by the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes (CSPO) as part of a Rockefeller Foundation grant and, more recently, through the support of the NSFs Science of Science Policy (SciSIP) program. Funding Information: We compile and analyze 1,020 documents with over 100,000 pages of documentation, selected after consultation with SIP scholars and practitioners, including a (now former) US House of Representatives science and technology committee staff member; NSF senior advisors, program officers and staff; researchers familiar with the NSF; and laboratory directors actively funded by the NSF to conduct NSE.",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1007/s11192-010-0237-1",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "85",
pages = "29--39",
journal = "Scientometrics",
issn = "0138-9130",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "1",
}