University Assistance to State Government

It is commonplace to observe that the challenges facing government have become evermore capacious, complex, and comprehensive, and that scientific and technological knowledge is therefore increasingly needed in addressing major public policy problems. Yet, development of linkages between sources of expertise and public policymaking bodies has been problematical. Kenneth Boulding has remarked in a Science magazine editorial that the relationship between the academic/scientific and political communities is one of constant mutual frustration, that both sides feel they ought to be able to help the other, but that, thus far, the invention needed to resolve the dilemma has not been discovered [3]. The problem exists within a context the significance of which has been succinctly stated by the former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Roger Ravelle: Our future welfare and perhaps our survival will depend on the closest kind of cooperation between politicians, technologists, and natural and social scientists [15, p. 1104]. One focal area of this problem, which has been studied, is that of university-state government linkages. This article examines current experience in linking resources of universities with information needs of

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