New developments in biotechnology: Patenting life. Compiled by the Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the United States, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1990, 208 pp.,$69.95

AIChE Journal ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 36 (12) ◽  
pp. 1934-1934
Author(s):  
E. Alan Uebler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
The United States ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Office Of Technology Assessment

Operations of Chicago Helicopter Airways, Inc.

1962 ◽  
Vol 66 (620) ◽  
pp. 503-508
Author(s):  
R. S. Angstadt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Early Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Post Office ◽  
World War ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Second World ◽  
The U.S

The operations of Chicago Helicopter Airways represent a portion of the total Federal effort within the United States on behalf of helicopter development. This effort has been an outgrowth of the interest of the Civil Aeronautics Board and the U.S. Post Office Department which has a long tradition of looking for new developments in transport and of experimenting in new ways to move mail. Post Office interest in the aeroplane was the chief stimulus to the early development of U.S. airlines and dates back to the first scheduled air mail route authorised between New York and Washington in August 1918. It was natural, then, that the Post Office Department should have interest in the helicopter as it emerged in usable form for civil use after the Second World War.

The Office of Technology Assessment of the United States Congress: A Model for the Future?

1992 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhodri Walters
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Congress ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Pluralistic Society ◽  
The Future ◽  
Office Of Technology Assessment

It is difficult in any pluralistic society to gauge the influence on governments or administrations of organizations which engage in policy studies even when those studies are the product of parliamentary bodies like select committees or other agencies. It is particularly difficult in the United Kingdom for example, where Parliament is, in practice if not in theory under the constitution, the unequal partner of the executive. Even where policy recommendations are followed by government there is often no way of telling whether or not they would have been pursued in any event, on the government's own initiative.

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