Philip Shapira, professor in the School of Public Policy, is chair of the National Academies’ Committee on 21st Century Manufacturing: The Role of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The Committee recently published a symposium report entitled Strengthening American Manufacturing: The Role of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18329).The document is a summary of a symposium convened to review current operations and recent US Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) initiatives within the context of the global manufacturing marketplace. The Committee’s full panel report will be published by the National Academies later this year.

Sapira's interests encompass science and technology policy, economic and regional development, innovation management and policy, industrial competitiveness, technology trajectories and assessment, innovation measurement, and policy evaluation. He currently directs research programs on nanotechnology research and innovation systems assessment  (as part of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society CNS-ASU ) and on organizational influences on highly creative scientific research. He is also a director of the Georgia Tech Program in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy.