David Hart

October, 2003

The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Policy: Governance, Start-Ups, and Growth in the U.S. Knowledge Economy

Book

By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

October 5, 2000

What Future for Science and Technology After This Autumn's US Elections?

Op-Ed, Nature, volume 407

By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Lewis M. Branscomb, Director Emeritus of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Corporate Management

Winter 1998

Antitrust and Technological Innovation

Journal Article, Issues in Science and Technology, issue 2, volume 15

By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

April 24, 1997

"Investing in Innovation: Toward A Consensus Strategy for Federal Technology Policy"

Working Paper

By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Lewis M. Branscomb, Director Emeritus of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program; Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Corporate Management

December, 1992

"Strategies of Research Policy Advocacy: Anthropogenic Climatic Change Research, 1957-1974"

Discussion Paper

By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

One step toward explaining the rise of climatic change as a political issue is the recognition that interest in it has been nurtured through the political activities of scientists. Beginning in the 1950s, entrepreneurial members of the scientific establishment forged links between their research and the public and private interests of political actors who might be in a position to support them. These entrepreneurs adopted three major strategies between 1957 and 1974. First, they attempted to develop autonomous domestic and international atmospheric science institutions in which they could direct research funding to their own priorities, which included research on anthropogenic climatic change. They justified their research in terms of its contribution to intellectual progress. Second, they took advantage of jurisdictional disputes among some agencies and Congressional factions with regard to weather modification policy to recruit allies. Their support for one side in the dispute was connected to its commitment to their research. Finally, they adopted the rhetoric of the environmental movement to make the issue appear more relevant and important to a different set of agencies. None of these strategies was particularly successful; alternative strategies might have been more fruitful. While their activities may have seemed natural to the actors involved, the paper suggests that more deliberate political strategizing on the part of scientific entrepreneurs may be both plausible and useful.

September, 1992

"Strategies of Research Policy Advocacy: Anthropogenic Climatic Change Research, 1957-1974"

Discussion Paper

By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Herbert Hoover's Last Laugh: The Enduring Significance of the 'Associative State'

Journal Article, Journal of Policy History, issue 3, volume 10

By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Review of William E. Leuchtenburg, The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy

Journal Article, Journal of Policy History, issue 1, volume 11

By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

U.S. Technology Policy: New Tools for New Times

Journal Article, NIRA Review

By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Scientific Elites and the Making of U. S. Policy for Climate Change Research, 1957-1974

Journal Article, Social Studies of Science, volume 23

By David Hart, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School