Browsing 2011 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy by Title
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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 ... -
Comparative advantages as drivers of scientific specialisation: do countries need specific or generic policies?
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Comparison of the Integrated Citation Impacts of Journals, Nations, and Institutions in the set journals of "Nanoscience & Nanotechnology"
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)Impact indicators have hitherto been based on summary statistics (e.g., averages). Integration of the citation curves after proper weighting for percentiles (top-1%, top-10%, etc.) provides a citation indicator that is ... -
A Complex Network Perspective on the World Science System
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)This paper discusses capabilities for a systematic overview of world science delivered from the use of new output indicators of science and technology. The data may be usefully structured using a complex network perspective ... -
The contribution of public funding to science: an investigation of research quality
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)This study attempts to investigate the impact of research funding on the quality of scientific publications using the funding acknowledgement analysis approach. A two-stage regression model is used to test the effect of ... -
Convergence in science: Growth and structure of worldwide scientific output, 1993-2008
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)We examine if the globalisation of science is accompanied by convergence in the level and structure of scientific output. We use Web of Science data on the scientific output of 205 countries for 1993, 2000, and 2008, ... -
Coordination through power in University-Industry R&D projects
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Cosmopolitanism in Science: A Productivity Study
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)Engaging concepts inherent to knowledge production studies, we examine Merton s cosmopolitanism ideal type through a contemporary lens regarding the role of cosmopolitan dimensions in shaping scientific output. Using survey ...