Policy and Management Issues in Science and Technology (P02242)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : SPS-P-P02242

PMIST provides a comprehensive introduction to generic policy and management issues in science, technology and innovation, and approaches for analysing and acting on them. It uses examples from a range of science and technology areas, but focuses particularly on information and communication technologies, the life sciences and biotechnology. It includes material on approaches to analysing more general policy processes and governance issues, as well as providing some familiarity and experience with techniques and procedures used in policy-formulation, decision-making, assessment and implementation.

? Keywords : science
technology
policy
innovation
management
governance

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : none

? Co-requisites : none

? Prohibited combinations : none

? Costs : none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of Social and Political Studies), (School of Social and Political Studies, Schedule J)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will have demonstrated through written work, oral presentations and other contributions in class, that they
- have a substantive knowledge and understanding of a selection of important policy and management issues in science, technology and innovation, and of the contending viewpoints and claims on these issues, across a range of different science and technology areas but particularly in their area of specialism
- can identify and characterise key approaches to understanding and evaluating policy and management processes and interventions in science, technology and innovation, and identify advantages, problems and implications of these approaches
- can critically evaluate contributions to the academic and public debates on these issues, and decisions on them
- can identify, deploy and evaluate a selection of techniques and procedures used in policy-formulation, decision-making, assessment and implementation
- can apply these understandings and skills, and deploy some of these approaches, concepts and techniques, in analysing a new problem in policy or management in science, technology and innovation, and in devising, evaluating and justifying options for intervention