The study of technology policy or engineering and policy is taught at multiple universities.

Classic political science

Political science

Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

 teaches technology as a black box. Similarly economics

Economics

Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

 treats technology as a residual to explain otherwise inexplicable growth. The creation of the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy

Office of Science and Technology Policy

The Office of Science and Technology Policy is an office in the Executive Office of the President , established by Congress on May 11, 1976, with a broad mandate to advise the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs.The director of this office is...

 addressed the fact that policy can not treat all technologies as identical based on their social or economic variables. Technology policy is distinct from science studies

Science studies

Science studies is an interdisciplinary research area that seeks to situate scientific expertise in a broad social, historical, and philosophical context. It is concerned with the history of academic disciplines, the interrelationships between science and society, and the alleged covert purposes...

 but both claim Thomas Samuel Kuhn as a founder, while technology policy recognizes the importance of Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb as a primary organizer of the Manhattan Project, the founding of Raytheon, and the idea of the memex, an adjustable microfilm viewer...

. Technology policy approaches science as the pursuit of verifiable or falsifiable hypotheses, while science studies has a post-modern view whereby science is belief-based and all truths are relative. Technology policy is rarely post-modern. Its goal is the improvement of policy and organizations based on an understanding of the underlying scientific and technological constraints and potential. For example, some clean coal technologies

Clean coal technology

Clean coal technology is a collection of technologies being developed to reduce the environmental impact of coal energy generation. When coal is used as a fuel source, the gaseous emmissions generated by the thermal decomposition of the coal, include sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon...

 via carbon sequestration and the allocation of electromagnetic spectrum by auction are ideas that emerged from technology policy schools.

External Links

• Technology Policy Group in LinkedIn

Engineering and policy schools

• Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie-Mellon University
• Engineering and Systems Division at MIT
• Department of Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research at Stanford
• Centre for Innovation Policy and Technology Research at IST-Lisbon  in Portugal
• Technology, Policy and Management at TU Delft in the Netherlands
• MPhil in Technology Policy at University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
  , Judge Business School
  Judge Business School
  Cambridge Judge Business School, formerly known as the Judge Institute of Management Studies, is the business school of the University of Cambridge. Established in 1990, the School is a provider of management education and is consistently ranked as one of the world's leading business schools. It is...
  
  , United Kingdom

Information technology and policy schools

• School of Information at University of California at Berkeley
• Informatics at Indiana University at Bloomington
• School of Information at University of Michigan
  University of Michigan
  The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
  
  
• Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology
• School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech