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Institutional Options and Operational Issues in Technology Assessment: Lessons from Experiences in the United States and Europe
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10)This paper illuminates widening variety of technology assessment (TA) activities by parliamentary organizations and other bodies in the United States and Europe. It also illustrates a range of institutional options for ... -
Strengthening the Pipeline for Innovation in Cancer Research: The National Cancer Institute's Program for Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10)The declining value of the dollar and the evolving shape of the economy are affecting the value and availability of the funds that support the development and commercialization of novel cancer technologies. This conservatism ... -
Blind Matching Versus Matchmaking: Comparison Group Selection for Highly Creative Researchers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10)This research examines approaches for constructing a comparison group relative to highly creative researchers in nanotechnology and human genetics in the US and Europe. Such a comparison group would be useful in identifying ... -
Activities Without Institutionalization: Limits and Lessons of TA and TA-Like Activities in Japan
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10)Even though the TA has not been institutionalized in Japan, there have been many TA and TA- like activities, in areas including food, healthcare, energy and technology strategy, since the idea of TA was introduce from the ... -
The Effects of Organization Resources on Scientific Production
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10)This study intends to tackle the following questions: What types of resources would enhance scientist's research production? How does collaborative network mediate the relationship between resources and scientific production? ... -
Knowledge Politics of Nano-Interdisciplinarity: Towards a Critical Knowledge Assessment
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10)In late-modern societies, knowledge constitutes a major component of any human activity. Knowledge politics - a field of political activities concerned with the production, application, monitoring and control of new knowledge ... -
Science and Innovation in North Patagonia Argentina
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Innovation and Aging - Toward a Bi-Directional Perspective
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10)Aging is among the most striking societal changes that highly industrialized economies face. While a number of related challenges, such as the increasing pressure on social security systems, are being widely addressed by ... -
Scientists Engaged in Emerging Technology Research: The Nature of Scientific Networks and Collaborative Groups
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10)Emerging technologies are generally seen as those latest scientific innovations which "embody the latest in efficiency and productivity design that have most recently been commercialized" (Lung, Masanet et al. 2006), have ... -
Innovation Policy in Emerging Domains of Activity: First-Mover Advantage or Curse?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-02)Do first-mover advantages exist for public policy? The theory of the first-mover advantage has been well studied in organization theory and marketing science. It is generally accepted that first-mover firms have multiple ... -
A Credible Approach to Benefit-Cost Evaluation for Federal Energy Technology Programs
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-02)Lawmakers want to know the returns on their investment. The difficulties in measuring benefits and costs, and attributing some portion of those to specific research and technology development (R&D) programs, has meant ... -
Innovations in Emerging Versus Mature Technology Fields: The Differing Roles of Private and Public Sector Organizations
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GWAS Data and Federally-Funded Public Access Repositories: Considering the Ethical, Policy, and Social Implications from Multiple View Points
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-02)The collection and distribution of individual genotypic and phenotypic data has increased enormously in the past 10 years and shows no signs of slowing down. The rapid growth of bioinformatics technologies and genome wide ... -
Rethinking Collaborative Entrepreneurship: The Impact of Networks and Cognitions on Research Opportunities
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-02)Entrepreneurial behavior is an important and prevalent behavior among academic scientists - key members of the science and innovation workforce. In this setting, the academic-entrepreneur is one who develops and markets ... -
Building a Science and Technology Roadmap for Georgia: Chapter 1
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-02)The State of Georgia is well-positioned to be a national leader in science and technology. With a thriving academic research infrastructure and a growing technology sector, Georgia has a strong foundation on which to build ... -
The Determinants of National Innovation Capability - A Cross-Country Innovation Efficiency Analysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-02)Since innovation is playing an important role in the age of knowledge, using innovative resources more efficiently gradually becomes a hot issue at national level. National innovative capacity is the ability of a country ... -
Writing Policy on the Head of a Pin: Is Nano, Technology?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-02)There have been many instances in the last sixty years where policy has successfully driven both science and the development of technology. These include, for example; President Truman's eventual formation of the National ... -
The Role of Design Complexity in Technology Improvement
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-02)We study a simplification of a previously proposed model of technology evolution to understand the behavior of performance curves, which describe how a technology improves with increasing cumulative production. The model ... -
Linking Needs and Markets: How to Conceptualise and Support the Creation of Lead Market?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-02)This paper 1) discusses the concept of lead markets and the linkage of lead markets to societal and global goals 2) presents a novel concept to support and assess policy approaches that strive to create Lead Markets. 3) ... -
Anticipation on Societal Embedding of Nanotechnologies in the Domains of Food & Health: An Emerging Super Heuristic?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-02)The introduction and societal embedding of new and emerging technologies such as nanotechnologies is a challenge and requires dedicated work. In particular the Collingridge Dilemma puts a challenge. But it has to be extended ...