Creates possibilities for action while changing how organizations and societies allocate capability and authority.
Independent research in the public interest
Understanding technological change. Informing public decisions.
The Technology & Society Institute studies how technological and social orders develop together. We examine how institutions and markets shape technological possibilities, and how technologies in turn reorganize economic life, public authority, and social relations.
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Our mission
Research on how technological change develops through institutions and reshapes public life.
The Institute advances knowledge and informs public decisions through independent research. Its programs examine how technological systems acquire resources and authority, how organizations put them into practice, and how those arrangements change over time.
Research programs
Researching technology through the institutions that shape its development and use.
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Innovation and Economics
Innovation, markets, and economic change
Examines how economic institutions shape technological development and how innovation, in turn, reorganizes markets and productive activity.
02AI, Data, and Public Policy
AI, data, and public governance
Examines how AI develops through markets and institutions, and how its use changes economic activity, public authority, and social life.
03Manufacturing Technologies
Production, infrastructure, and industrial systems
Examines how technological knowledge becomes productive capability through manufacturing systems and the institutions that sustain them.
04Military Technologies
Military technology, institutions, and security
Examines how military organizations turn technical systems into operational capability and how new technologies reshape military organization and strategy.
05Regulation and Society
Technology governance, institutions, and public authority
Examines how governance shapes technological development and how technological change transforms regulatory institutions and public authority.
Core perspective
Technology, Society, and Institutions
Shapes what technologies are valued, contested, adopted, and adapted through practical use.
Organize the resources and rules through which technologies are developed, governed, and made consequential.
How we contribute
Evidence, analysis, and public engagement.
Independent interdisciplinary research on how technological change emerges, becomes institutionalized, and produces public consequences.
Evidence-based analysis of policy choices, the institutions through which they operate, and their consequences.
Programs that strengthen public understanding and technology-policy capability.
Dialogue that brings research into sustained exchange with public and private institutions.
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