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STS.081 Innovation Systems for Science, Technology, Energy, Manufacturing, and Health

STS.081 Innovation Systems for Science, Technology, Energy, Manufacturing, and Health (Spring 2017, MIT OCW). Instructor: William Bonvillian. This course focuses on science and technology policy - it will examine the science and technology innovation system, including case studies on energy, computing, advanced manufacturing, and health sectors, with an emphasis on public policy and the federal government's role in that system.

Class 9 Description:
Class 9 will note the organizational origins of NIH in the fundamental research model, and discuss the implications of that model for the role NIH plays in the biomedical innovation system. Key topics, including NIH's role in training life science researchers for university and industry, the origins of the human genome project, the rise of the biotech sector around a new computational science model, the role of biotech firms in the development stage, and the power of the patent system in life sciences, will be discussed. NIH problems - in pursuing cross-disciplinary, translational, and physical science-based research, with organizational stovepipes, and in attacking niche and small disease population diseases - will also be reviewed. The genomics initiative will be reviewed as a particular case study on organizational issues. Proposals from the Institute of Medicine and others for NIH reorganization will be discussed. Problems in developing therapies for infectious disease and with developing new approaches to drug validation and approval will be discussed through reports from the Infectious Diseases Society and FDA. The class will also review recommendations for system reform from PCAST and a white paper on integrating life with engineering and physical science as a promising new R&D and innovation model. (from ocw.mit.edu)

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