Robin Auger is a Ph.D. student in Public Policy at George Mason University. Her general research interests are focused in science, technology, and innovation policy. Current research activities are in public/private sector collaboration in technological innovation, complexity and technological innovation patterns, national systems of innovation, and industrial clustering. Space policy is another area of particular interest. Her Ph.D. research is centered on the nature and behavior of the self-organizing, complex adaptive systems of collaborative agent networks found throughout the technological innovation process. Ms. Auger has professional technology-policy related experience in both public and private organizations.