David M. Hart is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He received a Ph.D. in political science from MIT in 1995 and taught from 1994to 2004 at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Hart's research focuses on the formation of public policies that bearon technological innovation and economic growth at the state, national, and international levels. His books include Forged Consensus: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the U.S., 1921-1953 (Princeton University Press, 1998) and The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2003). His article on the determinants of entrepreneurially-oriented state economic development policy, which was supported by a grant from the Kauffman Foundation, appeared in the March 2008 issue of Review of Policy Research.
Co-Sponsored by the Industry Studies Program of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation