Strategic Science in the Public Interest : Canada's Government Laboratories a...

by Doern, G. Bruce; Kinder, Jeffrey S.

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Strategic Science in the Public Interest : Canada's Government Laboratories and Science-based Agencies, Hardcover by Doern, G. Bruce; Kinder, Jeffrey S., ISBN 0802088538, ISBN-13 9780802088536, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Canada's approach to scientific research is not unique amongst developed nations. Its system of funding and otherwise supporting new basic science and applications is intended to provide the best research for the most Canadians, but often the "best research" is commercial and the "most Canadians" are powerful businesses and industries. Doern (public policy and administration, Carleton U.) and Kinder, a . candidate in the same program, look closely at Canadian research facilities that investigate oil sands, environmental technologies, wildlife and mining and metals to see why they focus on work with immediate financial returns rather than on long-range projects more in line with public benefits. They show how federally-controlled funding tends to round off the edges of research and how using a middle-level approach that respects the diversity in public needs would better serve taxpayers, and how the system of Related Science Activities has shifted from its original intentions. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

• ISBN: 9780802088536
• Condition: Fine

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