Science, Technology, and Public Policy
- Specializes in science and technology and its relationship to innovation, policy, and society.
- Currently at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at Ohio State.
- Works closely with the Global Knowledge Initiative to help with technology transfer to Africa.
- From 2006 until 2010, she was a Senior Analyst at SRI International and a Research Scientist at George Washington University.
- For 14 years, at The RAND Corporation, she was deputy to the Director of the Science & Technology Policy Institute, a research center serving the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
- In the 1990s, was a Professional Staff Member for the United States Congress Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and before that, in the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.
- Has worked extensively for the United States federal government, other governments, and inter-governmental groups analyzing global developments in science and technology.
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Current Research Interests
- Policy to create conditions for knowledge creation and absorption for economic growth at regional levels
- Complex systems theory as a way of understanding innovation and policy
- Information exchange, knowledge creation and diffusion within scientific research networks; statistical properties of knowledge-creating networks
- Effective policy to encourage knowledge creation and diffusion
Honors & Awards- Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2006
- Rockefeller Foundation Grantee, 2005 academic year
- Fulbright Foundation Distinguished Visitor, 2006
- 3 Awards for Exceptional Accomplishment, U.S. Government, 1996, 1998, 1999
- Summer Research Fellow, Hasting Center for Ethics in Science, 1982
Caroline S. Wagner
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