Career Achievements

This year, we celebrate the career achievements in technology transfer and science policy of Professors Barry Bozeman and Al Link. 

Barry Bozeman

Professor Emeritus

Arizona State University

Barry Bozeman is Regents' Professor Emeritus and Arizona Centennial Professor of Technology Policy and Public Management and founding director emeritus of the Center of Organization Research and Design. Positions prior to ASU include Regents' Professor and Ander Crenshaw Endowed Chair of Public Policy, University of Georgia; Regents’ Professor of Public Policy and Founding Director, School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech; Professor of Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University.

Bozeman's research focuses on public management, public values, science and technology policy, and higher education policy. He is the author or co-author of 20 books, including most recently "Science Competes:  Informing Public Policy in a Time of Distrust, Political Fracture, and Information Chaos" (MIT Press, to appear in 2025). Other books include "Public Value Innovation" (Elgar Press, to appear 2025), with John P. Nelson, "Public Values Leadership" (Johns Hopkins University, 2021), with Michael Crow, "Strength in Numbers: Research Collaboration Effectiveness" (Princeton University Press, 2017), with Jan Youtie, and "Public Values and Public Interest" (Georgetown University Press, 2007). The latter book won the American Political Science Association’s Herbert Simon Award for best book published in public administration and public affairs. Bozeman’s "All Organizations Are Public" (Jossey-Bass, 1987) helped establish a new research and theory approach to “publicness.” Professor Bozeman’s research articles have appeared in every major U.S. journal in the fields of public policy and public administration, and his research has been summarized in several publications, including Nature, Times of London, Nature Medicine, Science, Chronicle of Higher Education, and New York Times, among others.

Bozeman is an elected fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Public Administration. Awards received include the Charles Levine Memorial Award of the American Society for Public Administration, the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration research award, and the 2013 Public Management Research Association’s H. George Frederickson Award for lifetime achievements and contributions to public management research.

Science and technology policy consulting in the US includes work with the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, EPA, Internal Revenue Service, and S&T agencies in other nations, including France, Japan, China, South Africa, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, Spain, Finland, Denmark, and Norway.

Non-academic interests include: music (jazz and blues); hiking and biking; both classic and trashy novels; nearly every imaginable sport, but especially baseball; military and political history; cooking; and planet saving.

Albert N. Link

Professor Emeritus

University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG)

Albert N. Link is Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Development Strategies at Indiana University Bloomington O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Prior to retirement, Link was the Virginia Batte Phillips Distinguished Professor at UNCG. Professor Link received the B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Richmond (Phi Beta Kappa) and the Ph.D. degree in economics from Tulane University. After receiving his Ph.D., he joined the economics faculty at Auburn University, later became a Scholar-in-Residence at Syracuse University, and then joined the economics faculty at UNCG in 1982. In 2019, Professor Link was awarded the title and honorary position of Visiting Professor at Northumbria University, U.K.Professor Link’s research focuses on technology and innovation policy, the economics of R&D, and policy/program evaluation. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Technology Transfer. He is also co-editor of Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship and founder and editor of Annals of Science and Technology Policy. 

              

Among his more than 70 authored/co-authored and edited/co-edited books, some of the more recent ones are: Public Sector Technology Transfer (Edward Elgar, 2025), Small Firms and U.S. Technology Policy: Social Benefits of the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research Program (Edward Elgar, 2023), Public Sector Entrepreneurship: Innovative Pricing Policies for U.S. National Parks (Edward Elgar, 2022), The Economics and Science of Measurement: A Study of Metrology (Routledge, 2022), Technology and Innovation Policy: An International Perspective (Edward Elgar, 2021), Invention, Innovation and U.S. Federal Laboratories (Edward Elgar, 2020),  Technology Transfer and U.S. Public Sector Innovation (Edward Elgar, 2020), Collaborative Research in the United States: Policies and Institutions for Cooperation among Firms (Routledge, 2020), Sources of Knowledge and Entrepreneurial Behavior (University of Toronto Press, 2019), Handbook for University Technology Transfer (University of Chicago Press, 2015), Public Sector Entrepreneurship: U.S. Technology and Innovation Policy  (Oxford University Press, 2015), Bending the Arc of Innovation: Public Support of R&D in Small, Entrepreneurial Firms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Valuing an Entrepreneurial Enterprise (Oxford University Press, 2012), Public Goods, Public Gains: Calculating the Social Benefits of Public R&D (Oxford University Press, 2011), Employment Growth from Public Support of Innovation in Small Firms (W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2011), and Government as Entrepreneur (Oxford University Press, 2009). 

 

Professor Link’s other research endeavors consist of more than 250 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, as well as numerous U.S. government reports. His scholarship has appeared in such academic journals as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Economica, Research Policy, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, the European Economic Review, Small Business Economics, ISSUES in Science and Technology, Science and Public Policy, Scientometrics, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, the International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Annals of Science and Technology Policy, Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, and the Journal of Technology Transfer.

              

Professor Link’s public service includes being a member of the National Research Council’s research team that conducted the 2010 evaluation of the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Based on that assignment, he testified before the U.S. Congress in April 2011 on the economic benefits associated with the SBIR program. Professor Link also served from 2007 to 2012 as a U.S. Representative to the United Nations (in Geneva, Switzerland) in the capacity of co-vice chairperson of the Team of Specialists on Innovation and Competitiveness Policies Initiative for the Economic Commission for Europe. In October 2018, he delivered the European Commission Distinguished Scholar Lecture at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (in Seville, Spain). 

 

Professor Link served as a member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funded research team studying the economic impacts of investments in U.S. neutron research sources and facilities in 2022, and he was an advisor to the research team focusing on the Phase IIB SBIR program in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute within the Department of Health and Human Services from 2023 through 2025.

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