Center Program AreasEach of the three interdisciplinary program areas is led by a University faculty member. From the vantage point of these program areas, the Center focuses on how the application of science and technology can beneficially impact quality of life, efficacy of institutions, and urgent global challenges.
Organized by the three program areas, the Center sponsors research, convenes faculty across the disciplines and schools of the University in a variety of ways including quarterly meetings, and hosts symposia. Santa Clara University faculty members are affiliated as STS Associates or STS Scholars if they are currently receiving financial support from the Center. The program areas disseminate research and new knowledge to both scholarly and relevant policy oriented groups.
Economic and Social Development The Economic and Social Development program area promotes ongoing scholarship on issues related to the influence of scientific advances and information and communication technologies on economic and social development. Center scholars are engaged in research projects and teaching addressing a wide range of important topics, including the transforming roles of the new and evolving communication media on families and schools, differential access to technology between men and women and its consequences on employability and career prospects, and new systems for the creation and maintenance of online communities.
Innovation and Organizational Change
The Innovation and Organizational Change program area faculty seek to improve the performance of organizations and institutions through greater understanding of the dynamic relationships of science and technology within and across organizations. Research projects address the role of science and technology as related to topics such as organizational design, process and product innovation, organizational learning, and the development and implementation of organizational strategic and/or cultural change.
Law and Public Policy Program Area
Faculty in the Law and Public Policy program area engage in the study of the interplay between scientific, technical, and social change and the formulation, evolution, and enforcement of law and public policy. The goals of this work include the facilitation of legal analysis and policy making informed by an understanding and appreciation for the complex manner is which science, technology, and society interact. |
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