Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "Science and Technology"
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Abuse of Dominance by High-Technology Enterprises: A Comparison of U.S. and E.C. Approaches
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)This paper compares how the United States and the European Community dealt with competition policy challenges by two firms operating at the frontiers of technology: Microsoft and Intel. The U.S. Microsoft case was broadly ... -
Building New Agricultural Universities in Africa
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)There is an urgent need to create a new generation of innovation-oriented agricultural that efficiently bring together agricultural research, training, commercialization, and extension. This paper calls for upgrading the ... -
Enabling a Nuclear Revival — And Managing its Risks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2009)Matthew Bunn and Martin B. Malin examine the conditions needed for nuclear energy to grow on a scale large enough for it to be a significant part of the world’s response to climate change. They consider the safety, security, ... -
How Good Politics Results in Bad Policy: The Case of Biofuel Mandates
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Biofuels have become big policy and big business. Government targets, mandates, and blending quotas have created a growing demand for biofuels. Some say that the U.S. biofuels industry was created by government policies. ... -
International Workshop on Research, Development, and Demonstration to Enhance the Role of Nuclear Energy in Meeting Climate and Energy Challenges
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, 2011)Dramatic growth in nuclear energy would be required for nuclear power to provide a significant part of the carbon-free energy the world is likely to need in the 21st century, or a major part in meeting other energy challenges. ... -
Nuclear Lessons for Cyber Security?
(United States Air Force, 2011)Identifying “revolutions in military affairs” is arbitrary, but some inflection points in technological change are larger than others: for example, the gunpowder revolution in early modern Europe, the industrial revolution ... -
Preventing the Next Fukushima
(AAAS, 2011)While this year's disaster at Japan's Fukushima Dai'ichi plant, the worst since Chernobyl in 1986, was caused by the one-two punch of a huge earthquake followed by an immense tsunami—a disaster unlikely to occur in many ... -
Reducing Nuclear Dangers
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)Ron Rosenbaum wants us to be worried. His book How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III is intended as an urgent warning that the terrifying dangers of nuclear weapons did not disappear when the Cold War ... -
Securing Nuclear Stockpiles: The First Line of Defense in Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
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Technological Abundance for Global Agriculture: The Role of Biotechnology
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2012)Science and innovation have always been the key forces behind agricultural growth in particular and economic transformation in general. More specifically, the ability to add value to agricultural production via the ... -
The U.S.-Russia Joint Threat Assessment of Nuclear Terrorism
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, and Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies., 2011)Nuclear terrorism is a real and urgent threat. Given the potentially catastrophic consequences, even a small probability of terrorists getting and detonating a nuclear bomb is enough to justify urgent action to reduce the ... -
Will Electric Cars Transform the U.S. Market
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)For the past forty years, United States Presidents have repeatedly called for a reduction in the country's dependence on fossil fuels in general and foreign oil specifically. Stronger efficiency standards and higher taxes ...