Formulating policy on sciences

Systematically investigating scientific and technological activities and their function within society; in particular, policymaking in scientific and technological fields, and with the interrelationship between policymaking, cultural values and societal goals.

The implementation of science policy is a deliberate and coherent attempt to promote a basis for national and international decisionmaking influencing the size, institutional structure, resources and creativity of scientific research in relation especially to its application and public consequences.