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Barry Bozeman

Research Professor, University of Georgia; Arizona State University

Barry Bozeman is Regents’ Professor and Crenshaw Endowed Chair of Public Policy, University of Georgia and Research Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University.  In 2003, Bozeman was installed as Distinguished Affiliated Professor, University of Copenhagen.  From 1993-2006, Bozeman was Regents’ Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech, and first full-time director of the School of Public Policy. For eighteen years, Bozeman was Professor of Public Administration, Law and Affiliate Professor of Engineering at Syracuse University where he was director of the Maxwell School’s doctoral program and founding director of the Center for Technology and Information Policy.   He has had visiting appointments at University of Michigan, Columbia University, University of Paris, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and Japan’s National Institute for Science and Technology Policy.  

Bozeman’s research focuses on two fields, science and technology policy and public management and organization theory.  He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including most recently, Public Values and Public Interest (Georgetown University Press, in press).  He co-authored one of the best known books on the U.S. system of research, Limited by Design: R&D Laboratories in the U.S. National Innovation System (Columbia University Press, 1999) [with Michael Crow].   His All Organizations Are Public (Jossey-Bass, 1987) has been on of the most cited books on public administration theory and was recently acquired by Beard Publishing and reprinted.

Bozeman’s more than 200 research articles have appeared in every major U.S. journal in the fields of public policy and public management as well as such diverse journals as American Journal of Political Science, IEEE Transactions in Engineering Management, Managerial and Decision Economics, Research Policy, Issues in Science and Technology.  On many occasions, his research has been summarized in a variety of mass media, including, for example, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Economist, and Chronicle of Higher Education.   In a study published in Public Administration Review, Bozeman was named as one of the United States’ five most productive public administration scholars.  In a recent study, he was identified as on of the past decade’s five most cited and most productive authors in the field of technology transfer.

Among the agencies funding Bozeman’s current research are the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Institutes of Health.  Active as a consultant, Bozeman helped design research evaluation systems and science policies in New Zealand, France, Canada, Argentina, Chile, South Africa and Mexico.  Most recently, he has been working in Israel in that nation’s effort to redesign its national innovation system.

Bozeman is an elected Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement Science and the National Academy of Public Administration.