• The present study includes the syllabi information from 24 STI policy related education programmes of 10 countries.
• All of the targeted programmes were graduate level (Master’s or doctoral courses) but non-degree programmes were also included: 6 programmes at 6 Japanese universities, 8 US programmes, 2 programmes each from the UK and Turkey, and one programme each from the Netherlands, South Africa, Canada, Belgium, Italy, and the Russian Federation.
• Apart from five programmes for which information was collected through an exchange of emails after last year’s STI 2017 presentation, information was gathered from programme websites.
• The targeted programmes were selected through a website survey; for US programmes, we refered to the ‘Engaging Scientists & Engineers in Policy (ESEP) Coalition’ for each programme.

Due to incompleteness in data and methodology as follows, results should be interpreted with cautions.

• Data coverage and quality
• Data coverage is limited. In general, topic models require contents from more than several thousand documents. Limited data might indicate biased results.
• The amount of information publicly available differs significantly among programmes.
• Lack of universal standard for writing syllabi may result in university-,program-, and teacher-specific bias.
• Collected data might be incomplete for data-cleansing and could not ensure sufficient analytical accuracy.
• Methodology
• Subjectivity in defing the number of topics and its names.
• Machine classification sometimes leads to quite unnatural and erroneous results from common sense.

The below tables shows the top 20 words and the probability distribution of words to topics.

	Science and Society		Law and Ethics		Technology Adoption		Technology and Management
No	Topic 1		Topic 2		Topic 3		Topic 4
1	science	14.1%	issue	2.7%	market	3.4%	management	5.7%
2	technology	13.6%	law	2.7%	technological	2.7%	business	4.1%
3	social	3.6%	environment	2.5%	role	2.6%	risk	3.7%
4	society	2.9%	international	2.3%	introduction	1.9%	project	3.1%
5	communication	1.7%	include	2.3%	work	1.8%	strategy	2.8%
6	scientific	1.6%	current	1.9%	state	1.7%	issue	2.2%
7	relationship	1.2%	legal	1.4%	process	1.5%	process	1.5%
8	knowledge	1.1%	future	1.4%	case	1.4%	company	1.4%
9	think	1.1%	human	1.3%	change	1.4%	strategic	1.3%
10	addition	0.9%	space	1.3%	debate	1.3%	organization	1.3%
11	field	0.8%	global	1.2%	topic	1.2%	area	1.1%
12	require	0.7%	explore	1.2%	production	1.1%	focus	1.0%
13	question	0.7%	conflict	1.1%	issue	1.0%	idea	1.0%
14	various	0.7%	life	1.0%	development	1.0%	source	1.0%
15	critical	0.6%	concern	1.0%	approach	1.0%	industry	1.0%
16	module	0.6%	topic	1.0%	firm	0.9%	control	1.0%
17	study	0.6%	activity	1.0%	organization	0.9%	practice	0.9%
18	concrete	0.6%	regulatory	0.9%	network	0.9%	knowledge	0.9%
19	discipline	0.6%	non	0.9%	identify	0.8%	development	0.8%
20	scientist	0.5%	modern	0.9%	technical	0.8%	creativity	0.8%

	Intellectual Assets		Energy and Environment		Development and STI		Innovation and Policy
No	Topic 5		Topic 6		Topic 7		Topic 8
1	application	3.4%	environmental	4.5%	development	5.5%	innovation	11.4%
2	design	2.7%	change	3.1%	economic	4.1%	knowledge	3.4%
3	property	2.7%	energy	3.0%	social	3.1%	technology	3.3%
4	intellectual	2.7%	problem	2.4%	different	2.6%	policy	3.2%
5	right	2.6%	climate	2.0%	country	2.6%	concept	2.5%
6	community	2.4%	focus	2.0%	global	1.9%	evaluation	2.2%
7	registration	2.3%	perspective	1.8%	level	1.8%	develop	1.6%
8	international	2.2%	examine	1.6%	regional	1.5%	public	1.5%
9	procedure	2.0%	discuss	1.5%	governance	1.5%	university	1.3%
10	examination	1.8%	sustainable	1.4%	develop	1.1%	trend	1.3%
11	trademark	1.7%	infrastructure	1.3%	protection	1.0%	design	1.3%
12	trade	1.7%	explore	1.2%	world	0.9%	program	1.2%
13	industrial	1.5%	resource	1.0%	special	0.9%	transfer	1.2%
14	patent	1.4%	sector	0.9%	build	0.8%	institution	1.1%
15	report	1.3%	behavior	0.8%	effect	0.8%	base	1.1%
16	formal	1.2%	approach	0.8%	benefit	0.8%	sti	1.0%
17	file	1.1%	affect	0.8%	poverty	0.8%	private	0.9%
18	aim	1.0%	water	0.8%	attention	0.8%	institutional	0.9%
19	evaluation	1.0%	natural	0.8%	national	0.8%	measure	0.8%
20	search	0.9%	plan	0.8%	economy	0.8%	national	0.8%

	Policy Science		Research Design		Quantitative Methodology		Qualitative Methodology
No	Topic 9		Topic 10		Topic 11		Topic 12
1	policy	18.5%	research	9.3%	analysis	6.7%	student	6.8%
2	public	5.7%	lecture	4.3%	method	5.5%	class	3.1%
3	understand	5.5%	learn	2.8%	student	3.5%	develop	2.5%
4	health	5.1%	plan	2.3%	theory	2.6%	information	2.4%
5	make	3.1%	study	2.2%	data	2.3%	discussion	2.2%
6	political	1.8%	basic	2.2%	model	2.1%	seminar	1.7%
7	process	1.6%	field	2.0%	include	1.6%	presentation	1.5%
8	issue	1.6%	problem	1.9%	topic	1.6%	paper	1.4%
9	decision	1.3%	case	1.8%	apply	1.5%	need	1.3%
10	government	1.3%	economics	1.7%	provide	1.4%	study	1.3%
11	intervention	1.1%	base	1.6%	technique	1.3%	write	1.3%
12	politics	1.0%	conduct	1.4%	aim	1.3%	skill	1.2%
13	approach	0.9%	practice	1.1%	cover	1.2%	read	1.1%
14	impact	0.9%	theory	1.1%	exercise	1.2%	present	1.1%
15	evidence	0.8%	time	1.1%	various	1.2%	relevant	1.0%
16	evaluate	0.7%	ethics	0.9%	analyze	1.2%	group	1.0%
17	influence	0.7%	acquire	0.9%	quantitative	1.1%	major	1.0%
18	able	0.7%	range	0.9%	example	1.1%	final	0.9%
19	follow	0.7%	relate	0.9%	practical	1.0%	experience	0.9%
20	goal	0.6%	negotiation	0.8%	introduce	0.9%	review	0.8%

The research team would like to thank the individuals and organisations who generously shared their time, experience, and materials for this project. The work has been supported by the Science for RE-designing Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (SciREX) Programme in Japan. The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not represent in any way those of the institutions to which they are affiliated.

• A. Okamura, S. Hayashi, H. Koshiba and Y. Nishimura: "Mapping the educational content of the science of science, technology and innovation policy: an international comparison", Proc. 23rd International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators(STI2018), Leiden, The Nehterlands (2018) Download

• E-mail: scirexcorecontent [at] grips.ac.jp