Scientists' Impact on Decision-making

<p>With the increasing influence of science and technology (S&T) on socioeconomic life and public affairs there has been a growing demand for S&T expertise in today's public decision-making.</p><p>The National High Technology Research and Development Program (863 Program) involving hundreds of S&T experts marked the beginning of a new journey for China's high-tech development. This book discusses China's S&T decision-making mechanism with the 863 Program as the central case and scientist' influence on public decision-making as the focus. More importantly it extracts three key elements to analyze the determinative factors behind that influence <em>—</em><i> </i>knowledge value and institutions and proposed a KIV framework of macro-analysis. </p><p>The KIV being the first framework to generalize factors that could affect scientists' influence on public decision-making is of both theoretical significance and innovative value. In addition by finding out those factors this book attempts to create a decision-making environment conducive to scientists' contribution of their knowledge.</p>