Learn about research and development (R&D), including how it drives innovation, improves products, and helps keep companies competitive in different industries.

When Polity asked me if I’d write a book titled The Case for Universal Basic Income, I hesitated because I’ve always felt myself to be a skeptical supporter rather than an outright advocate. In the ...

Piaget’s stages of development describe how children learn as they grow up. There are four distinct stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. Jean Piaget was ...

Recent concern about the uncertain impacts of artificial intelligence has fueled renewed discussion of universal basic income (UBI). As in the past, much of the conversation depicts UBI as a policy ...

Just about every business starts with a basic concept—an idea of the type of product or service it wants to provide to customers. But what ultimately separates successful businesses from those that ...

It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants that support basic research requires that discoveries be shared with nonscientists.