Creates new possibilities and reorganizes capabilities, markets, and everyday life.
Independent research in the public interest
Understanding technological change. Informing public decisions.
The Technology & Society Institute examines how technologies, institutions, markets, social practices, and public values shape one another. We produce rigorous research to clarify the economic, political, security, and social consequences of technological change.
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Our mission
Research for governing technology in a changing society.
The Institute focuses on the economics of innovation, technological change, and related regulation. Its mission is to advance knowledge and inform policymakers through independent research, educational programs, policy dialogue, and conferences on major technological and societal questions.
Research programs
Technology in institutional, economic, and social context.
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Innovation and Economics
Innovation, markets, and sociotechnical change
Examines how institutions, infrastructures, investments, labor, knowledge, and public policy shape technological development and distribute its benefits and costs.
02AI, Data, and Public Policy
AI, data, and public governance
Examines how algorithms, data infrastructures, organizational practices, expertise, standards, and legal authority shape automated decisions and public accountability.
03Manufacturing Technologies
Production, infrastructure, and industrial systems
Examines how technologies, skills, standards, supply chains, organizational practices, and public investment convert scientific knowledge and technical design into productive capability.
04Military Technologies
Military technology, institutions, and security
Examines how acquisition, doctrine, training, logistics, force employment, political control, and organizational learning transform technical systems into military capabilities.
05Regulation and Society
Technology governance, expertise, and publics
Examines how laws, standards, classifications, measurements, regulatory institutions, and public contestation shape technological systems, distribute authority, and establish legitimacy.
Core perspective
Technology, Society, and Institutions
Shapes public values, social relationships, practical use, and public scrutiny.
Direct investment, standards, regulation, organizational practice, and public authority.
How we contribute
Evidence, analysis, and public engagement.
Independent interdisciplinary analysis of consequential technology-policy questions.
Clear assessment of regulatory choices, institutional arrangements, risks, and consequences.
Programs that strengthen public understanding and technology-policy capability.
Dialogue and conferences connecting research, government, industry, and civil society.
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