CSTEPS does research to understand the processes, institutions, organizations and individual incentives and motivations that affect the development and production of science.
Center for Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Studies
CSTEPS conducts research, evaluates policy and develops solutions for some of the world’s most pressing challenges at the nexus of scientific, societal, technological and environmental change.
Understanding science and social impact
We investigate the role of science and technology in advancing public goods and services and we develop and advance policy recommendations that improve how science is conducted to achieve important social and environmental outcomes. We integrate students and early career scholars in all aspects of our research.
Our research
We conduct empirical social science research aimed at understanding the processes, institutions, incentives and organizations that affect the global development and production of science and technology. We interrogate the role of technology in organization change, particularly how it concerns public organizations and institutions.
CSTEPS and USGS Cooperative Agreement: Grand Canyon Uranium Project
The Center for Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Studies (CSTEPS) conducted a three-year…
Accelerating Climate Adaptation via Meso-level Integration (ACAMI)
About the projectThe ACAMI project addressed a lack of recognition of the role of meso-…
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NASPPA Staats Emerging Scholars Award
Tipeng Chen, a Ph.D. candidate in the Center for Science, Technology and Environmental Policy…
SciOPS Survey on the Impact of U.S. Science Policy
In our latest SciOPS survey, we asked academic scientists about how changes in the U.S. political…
CSTEPS Contributes Governance Expertise to the International ECOFFEE Initiative
CSTEPS is partnering with CIRAD to design a governance framework for the international ECOFFEE…
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