Browsing 2011 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy by Title
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Academic Entrepreneurship and State Stem Cell Policy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)Ethical controversy over human embryonic stem cell research has led this field to be regulated by an atypically heterogeneous policy environment. This analysis takes advantage of one such area of heterogeneity, the presence ... -
Academic inbreeding: new insights for academic based research and recruitment
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)This paper analyzes the impact of academic inbreeding in relation to academic research and proposes a new conceptual framework for its analysis. We find that mobility at the early research career stage is decisive in ... -
Academic Productivity: The Added Value of Friendship
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)This paper seeks to explain the mechanisms by which friendship affects productivity of academic scientists. The quality of professional relationships determines the individual scientists' ability to pool resources from ... -
ACOPANELA cooperative´s networking capabilities and innovative performance, producing and marketing natural raw sugar - panela - for dynamic markets
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)A key barrier to upgrading the individual and associative innovative performance and competitiveness of firms in rural areas is that El Salvador s productive systems and the systems of public and private actors responsible ... -
An Analysis of the Achievements of JST Operations through Scientific Patenting
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)Scientific Patenting, the linkage between patents and scientific papers, is gaining increasing attention as a means of measuring innovation. The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) is a funding agency that promotes ... -
Assessing the Human and Social Dynamics Program—Exceptional Cross-disciplinarity
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)This paper presents an analysis of the cross-disciplinary character of the research supported by a unique US National Science Foundation program on Human and Social Dynamics (HSD). Measurement and mapping of the research ... -
Assessment of Fifteen Nanotechnology Science and Engineering Centers’ (NSECs) Outcomes and Impacts: Their contribution to NNI Objectives and Goals
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)US Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers (NSECs) were created to foster world-class science, commercialization, education, and responsible governance. Our evaluation of the NSEC program suggests that the NSECs have ... -
Biomedical Engineering Education and Practice: Challenges and opportunities in improving health in developing countries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)If the developing world is to overcome its lack of useful medical technologies, the innovation to do so must come from within; the developed world has shown minimal interest in pursuing technologies for markets with only ... -
Building biotechnology regulatory capability in southeast Asia
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)Biotechnology innovations offer solutions to problems related to food security, poverty and environmental degradation associated with high population growth rate and intensive agriculture. However, biosafety and biodiversity ... -
Building Government-Industry Capacity for Accelerating Large-Scale Energy Innovation: The Case of Carbon Capture and Sequestration
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)This paper analyzes two contrasting government-industry partnerships in deploying large-scale energy innovations, focusing on two research questions. What are the incentives, opportunities and barriers for initiating and ... -
But why? Towards agricultural science policy in India
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)India, with a successful green revolution, is now the republic of hunger . This paper analyses the evolution of economic growth, agricultural policy and science. Scientific research, historically subsumed within overall ... -
California and the United Kingdom: A Partnership for Climate Change Technology Innovation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)The Governor California and the British Prime Minister signed a pact in August 2006 to cooperate on policies related to climate change. This agreement represented a significant international accord for policy and technology ... -
Challenges and opportunities for SMES Leaded by women in the context of CAFTA-DR
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)This paper studies the impacts of the CAFTA on firms leaded by women. The theoretical framework is on system of innovation and performance. A conclusion is that a free trade agreement is not a panacea or a disaster, as ... -
The Changing Dynamic of Biopharmaceutical Research and Collaboration: An Empirical Study of the Innovation System in Taiwan
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)The aim of this study is to analyze the changing dynamic of collaboration between the key actors and the role that emerging institutions which promoted biopharmaceutical innovation have played. In conclusion, the findings ... -
Changing Priorities: The Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate's (S&T) R&D Funding, 2002-Present
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)This paper will describe the unique situation DHS S&T operates in relating to funding R&D projects, outline the shifting policy environment relating to DHS, and will seek to describe the evolution of DHS S&T funding and ... -
Charting the Course of Early Career Scientists
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) hires the best and brightest early career scientists (ECS) to ensure its scientific future. Study objectives were to (1) assess the work-related experience ... -
Co-evolution of policies and firm level technological capabilities in the Indian Automobile Industry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)In the last decade Indian auto industry has shown increasing levels of technological sophistication and significant growth. This paper tracks capability development in the Indian auto industry and seeks to understand ... -
Collaboration in Innovation and Foreign Ownership Across Europe
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)Collaboration facilitates the creation, transfer and absorption of new knowledge by reducing risk and complexity. This study considers differences in collaborative behaviour across thirteen countries. It finds that firms ... -
Commercialization of New and Emerging Technologies:A Cross Country Comparison of Graphene Firms
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This research employs a web-scraping methodology to 1) investigate country level differences among twenty graphene SMEs and 2) devise several measures that gauge the extent to which firm specialization in graphene coincides ... -
Community-Based Innovation Dynamics in the Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS) Sector
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)The article aims to determine what are the dynamics of innovation in the establishment of rural Water Supply and Sanitation-Community Based systems by focusing on the case of rural communities in Costa Rica. Results show ...