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... The growing relationships between science and other disciplines underlay the major additions of the National Academy of Engineering, in 1964, and the Institute of Medicine, in 1970. An emphasis on the increasing interdisciplinarity of the sciences, including the social sciences, continues under the current format of the National Academies.
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... "Our board is trying," he said, "to help improve our understanding of where we are, where we've been, and, ideally, where we're going." A GLOBAL INNOVATION IMPERATIVE Dr. Wessner said that an emphasis of the STEP program on technology innovation and entrepreneurship is defined as "the innovation imperative." While this imperative is not unfamiliar in the United States, it was being adopted with greater energy by other countries, which have "enormous interest" in learning about innovation policies in the United States.
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... One outcome of the study was catalyzing new science and technology parks at NASA's Ames Research Center, in Mountain View, California, and Sandia Park, near Albuquerque, New Mexico. The STEP board had also conducted a study of innovation in global industries, led by David Morgenthaler, of Morgenthaler Ventures, and a study of patents in the knowledge-based economy, co-chaired by Richard Levin, president of Yale University, and Mark Myers of the University of Pennsylvania.
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... Siegel as an expert on entrepreneurship and technology-based economic development, editor of the Journal of Technology Transfer, and president of the Technology Transfer Society, which focuses on the interdisciplinary and scholarly analysis of technology transfer from universities to federal laboratories.
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