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Nature 390, 543 (11 December 1997) | doi:10.1038/37431

Open Innovation Challenges

Science board seeks priority agreement

Colin Macilwain

The US National Science Board (NSB) has harshly criticized the way that science policy is established in the US government, and called for a dialogue between interested parties to establish procedures for setting scientific priorities and coordinating science-related activities across government.According to several officials, the recommendations of the NSB — a group of senior mainly academic scientists appointed by the president, primarily to run the National Science Foundation — amount to a rebuke for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), which is responsible for such coordination.