Browsing 2011 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy by Title
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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 ... -
Evaluating the Use of Non-Patent Reference for linking Science and Technology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This study verifies the systematic noise of non-patent reference by full-spectrum analysis, this study scans USPTO patents between 1976 and 2010 and retrieves the most highly cited non-patent references in USPTO, and compare ... -
Evaluation of Behavioural Additionality of Innovation Policy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)The concept of behavioural additionality proposes to study analytically what happens inside the firm as a result of the government intervention by asking the question "what difference does policy make in the behaviour of ... -
Evaluation System Barriers for the Third Mission in the Universities
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)In recent years, the European Commission and the OECD have emphasized the need of a cultural change in universities to foster the so-called Third Mission. Otherwise, different researches have proved a growing role of the ... -
Examining university industry collaboration policy in Japan by patent analysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)This study is a quantitative analysis of Japanese patent information to examine the changes in the nature and the outcome of university industry collaborations (UICs) following the enactment of UIC policies in the late ... -
Exploration and exploitation in energy RD&D budget allocation: an international comparison
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)For policymakers RD&D portfolio management is thus a problem of exploration and exploitation, of striking a balance between allocating funds to the further development of existing technological options or to the search for ... -
An Explorative Study on International Collaboration and Its Role in Research Trajectory: Evidence from US-China Collaboration in Nanotechnology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)Utilizing the turnover of keywords, this study develops a new method tracking the shift of research stream, and tests it within the context of US-China collaboration in nanotechnology. The results find evidence in support ... -
Factors Affecting the Speed and Dissemination of Technology Transferred from the Federal Laboratories
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This paper describes a study of the current state of affairs in technology transfer and commercialization at the U.S. federal intramural laboratories.The study began with a literature review that informed the approach to ... -
Few Projects Are Islands: Issues with the Project Form in Publicly-funded R&D
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)The use of project and project funding has become ubiquitous in science management and policy. Despite the success of some high-profile projects, we question the general movement to funding short-term projects. In this ... -
Financial Constraints and innovation investment in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina, Chile and Uruguay
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)In this paper, we study the effect of financing constraints on innovation and R&D investment in three Latin American countries (namely Argentina, Uruguay and Chile) using Innovation surveys covering firms both in manufacturing ... -
The Foundations: How education major influences basic science knowledge and pseudoscience beliefs
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)Although many pseudoscience beliefs are popular, most American research examines creation/evolution among liberal arts majors, general public adults, or, infrequently, secondary school science teachers, thus truncating the ... -
From Closed Models of Authoritive Governance to Open Systems of Collaborative Engagement: Progressing Science Policy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)Through an integrated social marketing perspective, autocratic science policies can transfuse into open systems of collaborative engagement. Science should be informed by, and should itself incorporate, more effective forms ...