Don E. Kash
Hazel Chair in Public Policy
Institute of Public Policy
George Mason University

Don Kash is the Hazel Chair in Public Policy at George Mason University's Institute of Public Policy. Before taking his present position, he was George Lynn Cross Research Professor in the Science and Public Policy Program, a policy research institute he started in 1970, at the University of Oklahoma. From 1978 to 1981, he headed the division of the U.S. Geological Survey that regulated an annual $25 billion of energy and mineral activities on federal and Indian lands and the outer continental shelf.

Kash has been a member of the Assembly of Engineering of the National Research Council (NRC) and has chaired or been a member of 12 NRC boards or committees. He has served on 13 Congressional Office of Technology committees and has chaired the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association.

Kash's research has recently focused on the innovation of complex technologies. Specifically, he is concerned with understanding how public policy must be adapted as technologies become more complex and experience rapid incremental innovation. Kash has sought comparative insight by looking at Japanese innovation. He is presently working on a book tentatively entitled Technology Policy in a Complex World.

Kash is author of PERPETUAL INNOVATION: THE NEW WORLD OF COMPETITION (Basic Books) as well as six other books. He has also authored numerous articles in journals and magazines ranging from Science to Research Policy.

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