Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes

at Arizona State University

Accomplishments and Opportunities

A Network of Creative Individuals & Institutions

Network Mission

“The Idea is to create a system where we’re at least thinking about what it is as we’re doing it. So it’s not about control, it’s not about prediction. It’s about awareness and choice.”

“For every serendipitous finding, there are plenty of examples where scientists successfully pursued research with a clear goal in mind.”

Vision: Leading Global Center in Social and Policy Issues of S&T

Organization: CSPO Hub

Core Intellectual Commitments

Strategy for Achieving Outcomes

Background & History

Research Programs

Degree Programs

Training Programs

Engagement Programs

Outreach Programs

CSPO Tool Shop

Major Research ProjectsProject Description Funding

Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University (CNS-ASU)

Facilitates the public's involvement in nanoscale research and development, to build new capabilities for understanding and governing the socially transforming power of nanotechnology.

NSF; 5-Year, $6.2 million$6.5 million renewal

Social-Technical Integration Research (STIR)

Studies the extent to which collaborations between social and natural scientists working alongside one another in research laboratories may advance responsible innovation.

NSF; 3-Year, $540K

Science Policy Assessment and Research on Climate (SPARC)

Conducts research, education, and outreach to improve the ability of climate science policies to support climate-related decision making in the face of uncertainties.

NSF; 5-year, $750K w/ Univ. of Colorado

Energy Innovation Systems from the Bottom Up

Develop recommendations for US climate-related research, development and deployment effort over the next two decades from innovation-systems perspective.

Bipartisan Policy Center; $285K

Integrating Microethics and Macroethics in Graduate S&E Education (EESE)

Investigate, design, and develop innovative instructional models for graduate students in science and technology that integrate microethical and macroethic issues.

NSF; 3-year, $300K

Public Value Mapping (PVM)

Develop public value based models for justifying, evaluating and assessing science and innovation policies based on outcomes.

NSF; $200K

Introduction to CNS-ASU

21st Century Nanotechnology R&D Act of 2003

(PL 108-153)

Sec 2(b)(10): Establish societal implications research program Require NSECs address societal implications Integrate societal concerns with nano R&D for benefit

of all Americans Provide for regular public input

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NSF’s Network for Nanotechnology in Society

Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University $6.2 million (Oct 2005 – Sept 2010) Renewed ($6.5M Oct 2010-Sept 2015) Partner institutions across the country Individual Partners across the globe

Center for Nanotechnology in Society at UC Santa Barbara $5 million (renewed $6.1M)

Projects (2005-10): Harvard/UCLA

($1.7 million) University of South Carolina

($1.4 million)

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CNS-ASU Mission

• Research the societal implications of nanotechnologies

• Train a community of scholars with new insight into the societal dimensions of nanoscale science & engineering (NSE)

• Engage the public, policy makers, business leaders, and NSE researchers in dialogues about the goals and implications of NSE

• Partner with NSE laboratories to introduce greater reflexiveness in the R&D process

NSEC/CNS-ASU Research Programs

Real-Time Technology AssessmentProvides methodological orientationResearch and Innovation Systems AnalysisPublic Opinion and ValuesAnticipation and DeliberationReflexivity and IntegrationThematic Research ClustersProvides thematic focusEquity, Equality and ResponsibilityUrban Design, Materials & the Built Environment (Nano & the City)

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Anticipatory GovernanceProvides strategic visionForesightAll governance requires a disposition toward futureEngagementCrucial normatively, strategically, pragmatically

IntegrationScientists know things we don’t, and vice versa

Ensemble-izationNone of these works in isolation

Anticipatory Governance as Strategic Vision

A broad-based capacity extended through society that can act on a variety of inputs to manage emerging knowledge-based technologies while such management is still possible.

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Anticipate: from ante- and capere, “to take [into possession]” “beforehand”; related to capable and capacity and not a synonym for “expect,” “predict,” or “foresee”

The pumpkin or the tiger? If science is puzzle-solving, when do we begin to pay attention?

Anticipatory Governance – Not Government

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• Not “do” or “ban”• “Science finds, genius invents, industry applies, man adapts”• Moratoriums proposed by ETC Group and Friends of the Earth

• Wide array of mechanisms• Regulation • Licensing/restrictions• Liability/indemnification• Intellectual property• Testing• Treaties• Public Understanding of Science• Informal Science Education• Public engagement• Public action• Codes of conduct• Standards• Laboratory decisions

Anticipatory Governance – Scholarship and Outreach

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Scholarly publications and presentations:• Barben et al (2008; 25 citations) • Guston (2008; 9 citations)• Karinen and Guston (2010)• Politicization of Science (Bielefeld 2009)• U Wash 2009 NanoEthics Symposium• 4S 2009 Chair’s plenary STS & Policy• 4S 2009 meeting – double session combined audience ~150• special issue for Social Studies of Science (~2011)• special issue of Science and Engineering Ethics (2010)

Policy audience and public actors taking up term:• Mike Roco (NSF) in nano governance• Kevin Hurst (OSTP) in energy and climate • Jeff Morris (EPA) in nano and EHS• Carol Johnson (city of Phoenix) in city planning• International uptake including:

• Flanders• Japan• Australia• New Zealand

• AAAS S&T Policy Forum 2009• CRS Briefing• GAO Meetings (ECAST)• STPI Meetings

Other interactions:• Fisher and Selin on a large grant from the Norwegian Research Council (R. Strand)• Workshop with SynBERC Human Practices group (P. Rabinow)• WWIC meeting on STS, Sus Sci & Syn Bio• Inaugural S.NET meeting training session (30 colleagues)• 50+ international visitors from 15 countries• NISE Net interaction• Consultative Group for Biodiversity• Asilomar for Geo-engineering• Ant Gov, RTTA, PVM “handbooks” co-produced with CSPO

Foresight

http://cns.asu.edu/nanofutures/ Literature-based Vetted Web-disseminated

Scenario development workshops

Product design Plausibility Project

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Engagement National Citizens’

Technology Forum 2008 Nano and Human

Enhancement Science Cafes NISE Net

Informal Science Education Forums

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Integration

Socio-Technical Integration Research (STIR)

Education/Training PhD+ DC Summer Session Curricular

Undergraduate Graduate

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Midstream Modulation

De facto modulation• Research practices are co-produced by cognitive, social, and

material elements

Reflexive modulation• Practitioner recognition of de facto modulation

Deliberate modulation• Purposive actions and normative commitments are informed by

reflexive modulation

STIR Project

3 year project National Science Foundation ($540,000) Collaborators (~$450,000)

20 laboratory engagement studies intervention-oriented multi-sited comparative

10 PhD students 9 universities in 8 countries

3 continents North America, Western Europe, East Asia

(http://cns.asu.edu/stir/)

Investigator Site 1 Site 2 Participant

United States

HSDST Tempe Beijing BioPhysics

Political Science Vancouver Oxford Fertility

Public Affairs Denver Belfast Materials

Anthropology Berkeley Basel Synthetic Biology

STS Tempe Seoul Chemistry & Bio

European Union &

Asia

Philosophy Tempe Madrid Physics

Business York Leeds Manufacturing

Philosophy Golden Dalian Fuel Cells

Political Science Walloon Flanders Nano/bio

Biotech & Society Delft Tempe Microbiology

STIR Decision Protocol

OPPORTUNITY what are you doing?

CONSIDERATIONS why are you doing it?

ALTERNATIVES how might you do it?

OUTCOMES where might this lead?

CNS-ASU

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Important scholarly and reference works• Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society• Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society series

Large, multi-year datasets & tools• Publications • Patents• Public opinion • Expert opinion• Media• STIR field data• Policy documents• Urban design elements

Demonstrations of public engagement at scale• National Citizens’ Technology Forum• FutureScape City Tours

Extended networks of individuals and institutions• Scores of institutions in public and private sectors • More than 100 international visitors • Thousands of participants

Generative, influential vision & methods• Anticipatory governance• Real-time technology assessment

In-depth study of critical, long-term societal issues• Human Identity, Enhancement & Biology• Equity, Equality and Responsibility• Nano and the City

New techniques and methods for• Anticipating futures• Engaging publics• Integrating across “two cultures”• Training students

Scholarly impact• 100-150 peer-reviewed publications• 1000-2000 citations

Human capital• New scholars• Enlightened citizens• Informed decision-makers• Reflexive scientists and engineers

Briefing Workshop in Washington DC• SPARC Researchers• Government, Foundation, Non-profit Program Managers• Former Presidential Science Advisor• Policy Fellows

Science for Decision Making

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SPARC Project• Climate-related decision making in the face of uncertainties

Interviews, Workshops, Analysis• Reconciling the needs of potential science users and the supply of scientific information.

Generalized Conclusion• Science best meets the needs of the decision makers when those needs are considered throughout the institutions, policies, and processes that comprise the scientific enterprise.

Recommendation• Criteria for verifying the usability of scientific results, and specific accounts of the outcomes which R&D programs aim to fulfill, are crucial to managing science for decision-making

Usable Science: A Handbook for Science Policy Decision Makers

Usable Science Workshops• Professional Society Conferences• Program Managers Network

Formation and Articulation of Research Programs at National Science Foundation• Decision-making Under Uncertainty• Nanotechnology in Society• Science of Science and Innovation Policy

Policy Attention

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Special Papers and Reports• Innovation Policy for Climate Change: A Report to the Nation• Societal Dimensions Research in the National Nanotechnology Initiative• Four Policy Principles for Energy Innovation & Climate Change: A Synthesis • USABLE SCIENCE: A Handbook for Science Policy Decision Makers

Recent Congressional Presentations• Sarewitz, Daniel and John Alic. December 02, 2009. "Accelerating Technological Advance for Climate Change: Lessons from Sixty Years of U.S. Innovation Policy." Testimony. U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Washington, DC. • Guston, David H. March, 2009. "Public Engagement: National Citizens' Technology Forum." Presentation. Nanotechnology and the Public: Data for Decision Makers briefing before the U.S. Congressional Nanotechnology Caucus, Washington, DC.

Science Assessment in National and International Bodies• Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group to the US NSTC• UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Media • Consistently mentioned in outlets including The New York Times, The Arizona Republic, USA Today, The New Republic, Science, The New Scientist, and Nature• Radio and television appearances by Sarewitz (NPR’s Morning Edition, The Weather Channel), Guston (NPR’s Diane Rehm Show, KAET), Miller (AZ-TV), Lim (Voice of America, ABC Australia), and Chhetri (ABC-15 News, KAET).

CSPO Conference

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The Rightful Place of Science? Rethinking the Role of Science and Society• Keynotes Mons. Marcello Sanchez Sorondo; Gina Kolata• CSPO Prize Winners/Exemplars• Next Generation S&T Policy Scholars• Young Science Communicators• 160+ attendees• Active blog site• Art, music & culture (high and low)

Citizens’ Forums

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World Wide Views on Global Warming• Netra Chhetri (CSPO/School of Geographical Sciences), Nalini Chhetri (CSPO), and CSPO Affiliate Sylvain Gallais (SILC) led ASU’s efforts to host one of four US-based forums for the World Wide Views on Global Warming project. Organized by The Danish Board of Technology and The Danish Cultural Institute, World Wide Views on Global Warming held citizen deliberations on climate change in 45 countries on September 26, 2009.

National Citizen’s Technology Forum• The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University (CNS-ASU) and its collaborators at North Carolina State University held the nation’s first “National Citizens’ Technology Forum” (NCTF), on the topic of nanotechnology and human enhancement in March 2008. Organizers selected from a broad pool of applicants a diverse and roughly representative group of seventy-four citizens to participate at six geographically distinct sites across the country. Participants deliberated face-to-face for one weekend at the beginning of the month, and electronically across their geographic groups during the rest of the month. The NCTF concluded with a second face-to-face deliberation at each site. Participants drafted reports that represented the consensus of their local groups.

Financial Summary The Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at

Arizona State University was established in July 2004 with funding from Presidential Strategic Initiative Funds (PSIF).

We have received additional PSIF funding (in both state and local monies) to support the growth of CSPO, including of the CSPO-DC office, and specific projects.

In addition, CSPO accounts include a number of external grants and sponsored projects, as well as monies received through research investment distribution (RID) on its grants.

A summary of CSPO revenues and expenditures for FY05-FY09 is presented in the following two slides. This summary does not include start up monies or individual investigator allocations for individual CSPO faculty.

Revenues: FY05 – FY09

Expenditures: FY05 – FY09

CSPO & the New American University Commonalities:

“leveraged place” by contributing to analyses of water usage in the Phoenix area and working with the University of Arizona College of Medicine in downtown Phoenix;

“intellectual fusion” through teaching in Learning Communities and other trans-disciplinary educational initiatives;

“social embeddedness” through collaborations with the Arizona Science Center and Center for Research on Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology for informal and formal science education; and

“global engagement” through programs or projects on World Wide Views on Global Warming, Global and Comparative Knowledges, institutional capacity development to adapt to climate change in Vietnam, and on Alternate Imaginations.

Shared goals: sustainability, which corresponds to a major research area at CSPO; complexity, which embraces CSPO’s transdisciplinary perspective; origins, which embraces CSPO’s focus on knowledge creation and innovation; health and quality of life, which corresponds to another major research area at CSPO;

and global engagement, which corresponds to a major set of research and outreach activities

at CSPO.

Investment Opportunities: Key Future Priorities1. Substantive programs of interest – CSPO will maintain

research portfolios in at least six programmatic areas;

2. Geographic scale or reach – CSPO outreach will connect on the local, regional, national, and global levels;

3. Educational or outreach partners, or audience; CSPO’s audience includes not just scholarly colleagues but natural scientists and engineers, decision-makers in the public and private sectors, pre-college teachers and their students, participants in informal science education settings, and other public groups;

4. Intellectual tools, or methods – CSPO is pioneering such intellectual tools as public value mapping, real-time technology assessment, and foresight, and is interested in applying other tools, e.g., visualizations and web 2.0 tools, to its interests;

5. Time index, or orientation – CSPO is interested in analyzing the past, understanding the present, and anticipating the future.

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