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Analyzing Framing Processes by Means of Logical Argument Mapping
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)The primary goal of this chapter is to present a new method—called Logical Argument Mapping (LAM)—for the analysis of framing processes. To justify this approach, I start with a distinction between boundary setting, ... -
Are the geographies of innovation and production converging or diverging? An assessment of high tech employment in regional economies in the US
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-05)To understand the processes of growth and change within regional economies researchers periodically engage in the evaluation and categorization of those regions. The resulting typologies serve to shape perceptions regarding ... -
Art of the State: Explaining State-Level Appropriations to Arts Agencies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005-09-09)This report focuses on appropriations to state arts agencies (SAAs), a primary figure in arts and cultural policy in the United States. It examines a specific category of state government expenditures using variation over ... -
Balancing Uncertain Risks and Benefits in Human Subjects Research
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-06)Composed of a variety of scientific and technical experts plus a few lay members, thousands of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) in the US must identify and assess the potential risks to human research subjects, and balance ... -
Beyond Value Neutrality: An Alternative to Monetary Monism in Ecological Economics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006-10)Ecological Economics has developed as a "transdisciplinary science," but it has not taken significant steps toward a truly integrated process of evaluating anthropogenic ecological change. The emerging dominance within ... -
Change and innovation in Georgia manufacturing: a 10 year perspective
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005)Small and medium-sized manufacturers in the United States are experiencing increasing challenges in today’s global economy. U.S. manufacturing employment declined by nearly 13 percent from 1998 to 2002. More than 2.25 ... -
Cognitive Conditions of Diagrammatic Reasoning
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyWalter de Gruyter & Co., 2007-02)In the first part of this paper, I delineate Peirce's general concept of diagrammatic reasoning from other usages of the term that focus either on diagrammatic systems as developed in logic and AI or on reasoning with ... -
Commercialization and Other Uses of Patents in Japan and the US: Major Findings From the RIETI-Georgia Tech Inventor Survey
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-02)Based on the newly implemented inventor survey in Japan and the US, we have examined the commercialization and other uses of triadic patents. Although the two countries have a similar overall level of commercialization ... -
Competing Dimensions of Energy Security: An International Perspective
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-01-13)How well are industrialized nations doing in terms of their energy security? Without a standardized set of metrics, it is difficult to determine the extent that countries are properly responding to the emerging energy ... -
A Conscious Geography: the Role of Research Centers in the Coordination of Innovation Policy and Regional Economic Development in the US and Canada
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-06)Through a comparison of how a "conscious geography"; has informed the organization of research centers in the US and Canada, this article contributes to the debate about the role of regions in the devolution of national ... -
The curse of the Hegelian heritage: "Dialectic," "contradiction," and "dialectical logic" in Activity Theory
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005)Referring to the concept of "dialectic" has been a promising approach for Activity Theorists to explain development and learning both in societies and in individuals. "Contradictions," for example, are understood as the ... -
Developing an "Energy Sustainability Index" to Evaluate American Energy Policy
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInstitute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining, 2007-12-07)This paper proposes the creation of an energy sustainability index (ESI) to inform policymakers, investors, and analysts about the status of energy conditions, and to help educate the public about energy issues. The proposed ... -
An Emerging Geography of Intangible Assets: Financialization in Carbon Emissions Credit and Intellectual Property Markets
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011)In this article we investigate how two cases of ‘intangible assets,’ carbon emissions credits and intellectual property, shift the balance of economic activity between and across regions. Carbon emissions credits and ... -
Energy Security Dimensions and Trends in Industrialized Countries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-06)This article represents one of the first scholarly efforts to correlate actual energy policy and practice with expert views of the multidimensional concept of energy security. Based on the energy security performance of ... -
Equality as an Issue in Designing Science, Technology, and Innovation Policies and Programs
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)Inequality is an important global challenge. Inequalities between countries are growing. While some poor countries are rapidly expanding their economies, others are stuck at a low level and the gap is therefore widening ... -
Estimates of the Cost of New Electricity Generation in the South
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-03-26)Future demand for electricity can be met with a range of technologies, with fuels including coal, nuclear, natural gas, biomass and other renewables, as well as with energy efficiency and demand management approaches. ... -
Evaluating the Risks of Alternative Energy Policies: A Case Study of Industrial Energy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-01)Numerous studies have shown the potential for U.S. manufacturing to cut its energy costs by installing more efficient equipment that offer competitive payback periods, but the realization of this potential is hindered by ... -
Evolving regimes of multi-university research evaluation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03)Since 1980, national university departmental ranking exercises have developed in several countries. This paper reviews exercises in the U.S., U.K. and Australia to assess the state-of-the-art and to identify common themes ... -
Exploring epistemological approaches to argumentation: from evaluation standards to the practice of argumentation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005-12-13)The paper distinguishes, in its first part, different epistemological approaches to argumentation theory and criticizes those who focus on non-relative criteria of argument evaluation. The second part describes the basic ... -
For Money or Glory?: Commercialization, Competition and Secrecy in the Entrepreneurial University
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyBlackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008-02-18)Scholars have grown concerned that the commercialization of academic science is increasing secrecy at the expense of cooperation and information sharing. Using data from comparable surveys of academic scientists in three ...
