SCIENCE POLICY AND OUTCOMES

The Center for Science Policy and Outcomes
This is the website of a project of Columbia University.

It has the following report available from its home page:

Knowledge Flows and Knowledge Collectives: Understanding the Role of Science and Technology Policies in Development

It also has links to:

Living with the Genie
Resources on the topics: Values in Science and Technology; Citizen Scientists; The Current State of S&T Policy; Possible Negative Impacts of Science and Technology; Science and International Governance; and Who Owns Science?

Note especially this report:

Black Star: Ghana, Information Technology and Development in Africa
This paper deals generally with technology transfer to Ghana (and Africa), and provides case study material on the experience of an unnamed American Information Services company investing in that country and a Ghanaian software company, "Soft". Telecommunications experience is also discussed. A chapter deals with human resource constraints, and another with elite behavior, By G. Pascal Zachary, Columbia University's Center for Science, Policy and Outcomes. Undated, but apparently 2003. (PDF, 52 pages)