Browsing 2011 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy by Title
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Developing Eco-system for Knowledge to Wealth Creation - Role of Technology Business Incubators in Indian National Innovation System.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This paper examines the current role of technology business incubators in academic entrepreneurship. The paper seeks to identify and understand the challenges to technology business incubators in contribution to the transfer ... -
Development of Scientific and Innovation Policy in Armenia in 2000s
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)The paper deals with an overview of developments in S&T and innovation sectors in Armenia during the last decade, describes its current state, as reflected in adopted during last years policy documents directed to promote ... -
Diffusion Score: Introducing a Counterpart to the Integration Score
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)The diffusion score is a new interdisciplinary metric used to assess the degree to which research is cited across disciplines. It is the analogue to the Integration score that measures diversity among a given publication ... -
The Diverse Variables To Consider When Planning and Assessing Public Research Portfolios
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)Analysis of public research portfolios should reflect the life cycle of the innovation process. This paper will characterize and organize the variables that could be considered in portfolio analysis for publicly funded ... -
Diversity and research collaboration in management and business in Latin America: An efficiency analysis of scientific performance
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)In this paper we analyze the relationship between a set of variables and performance, understanding the latter as the result of efficient combinations of collaboration and diversity patterns framed by geopolitical, ... -
DNA Rockstar: Using Interactive Media to Teach Genetic Science
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)The game DNA Rockstar! is the result of research conducted through the National Science Foundation s Graduate STEM Fellow GK-12 grant. Students use a familiar gaming environment (similar to Guitar Hero) to learn the basic ... -
Does interdisciplinary research lead to higher scientific impact?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)This paper explores the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact at the paper level. To do so, we first operationalize interdisciplinarity of a paper as the diversity of disciplines it references. ... -
Does Transformative Research Have Early Signs?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)I will first introduce an explanatory and computational theory of scientific discovery. The theory provides an extensible framework, which currently consists of structural and temporal properties as the necessary conditions ... -
Drivers of innovation of biofuel ethanol. A comparative analysis between the U.S. and Brazil.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)The United States remains dependent on energy sources derived from fossil fuels. The transportation system in particular is 98% dependent on oil. This overreliance on oil has raised concerns over the long term impact of ... -
The Dynamics of Innovation Networks along the Industry Life Cycle: The case of the Video Games Industry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)Innovation networks have attracted considerable attention in innovation studies but empirical analyses explaining their formation are still underdeveloped. The paper uses advanced statistical models to estimate the influence ... -
Dynamics of Innovation Systems for Sustainability: Implications from Case Studies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)The dynamics of technological innovation system is expected to make a significant contribution to understanding the process of sustainable socio-technical changes. We discuss how different functions interact with each other ... -
Economic Downturns, Technology Trajectories and the Careers of Scientists
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)This paper studies the effect of the burst of the telecom bubble on the trajectory of an emerging technology, and the careers of scientists in that industry. We focus on optoelectronics, a general purpose technology (e.g. ... -
Economic Growth Plus Rural Development: An Examination of China’s Solar Power Policies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This research paper describes China s policy-making process with regard to solar energy in the period 1996-2010. Major findings suggest China is pursuing a comprehensive energy plan that includes restructuring the energy ... -
Effects of Innovation on Employment in Latin America
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)This study examines the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth across four Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Uruguay) using innovation survey data. Based on Harrison et al.(2008), ... -
The emergence and formation of Finnish innovation policy. Analysing and understanding policy change
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)Recognizing the limitations of existing approaches to explain changes in STI policies this study investigates Finnish innovation policy as a discourse. The study shows that policy change is an effect of a slow and gradual ... -
Emerging Industry-University Trends, Challenges, and Interventions for Latin America
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This paper considers trends, challenges, and an intervention for Latin American universities and their relations with industry, as well as policy options available for fostering their contributions to overall development, ... -
ERC grants shaping research and academic careers: lessons for funding intellectual innovations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how and under what conditions the ERC grants serve their intended purpose. The paper is based on interviews with ‘starting’ and ‘advanced’ grantees from six countries and three ... -
The European Commission as a science and technology policy entrepeneur: explaining the emergence of security research in European Union S&T policy
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Evaluating Focus on Culture: creative economy for the generation of work and income in a Brazilian poor community
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)The project, Focus on Culture, is related to the Sustainable Development Program, conceived by IPTI, entitled The Human Project (http://www.thehumanproject.org.br). The conception of the project parts from the principal ... -
Evaluating the additionality and certification effects of research and innovation policy on small business start-ups: an inflow-sampling and counterfactual approach
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)Using a unique inflow sample of business founded in 2004 and tracked ever since, this paper uses non-parametric treatment effect estimators to measure the additionality effect of a U.S. federal R&D program among small ...