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Conclusions

In: Congress’s Own Think Tank: Learning from the Legacy of the Office of Technology Assessment (1972–1995)

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  • Peter D. Blair

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Today it is becoming increasingly more difficult for anyone or even any organization to keep pace with the frontiers of science and technology. Consequently it is becoming even more challenging for Congress to receive useful, relevant, informed, independent, authoritative and timely advice on the science and technology policy dimensions of the issues it faces, but the need is becoming a more frequent plea from the science and technology policy community. Effective science and technology policy advice in the unique policy making environment of the Congress today is perhaps especially complex and the necessary advice is generally not the same as that produced by most other organizations. Creating OTA-like features in existing organizations that would replicate the OTA study process and operate under direct congressional oversight is likely problematic, albeit still possible, in existing congressional organizations such as GAO or CRS, but OTA-like features may also be possible in external organizations such as the NRC, or in reinstating and updating an OTA to current circumstances.

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  • Peter D. Blair, 2013. "Conclusions," Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy, in: Congress’s Own Think Tank: Learning from the Legacy of the Office of Technology Assessment (1972–1995), chapter 10, pages 95-101, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:stachp:978-1-137-35905-6_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137359056_10
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