Browsing 2011 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy by Title
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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 ... -
From Europe with Love: capacity and the organisational dynamics of science
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)This paper explores the more fundamental social mechanisms behind the process of science organisation building at European level by using the establishment of the European Research Council as a case. The establishment of ... -
From protocol to guideline: The strategic use of scientific publications in clinical diabetes research
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)Numerous scholars have expressed concerns over the growing role of commercial interests in the academic domain (e.g. Nelson 2004). Notwithstanding the economic importance of bringing scientific knowledge to the market ... -
Future of renewables and its existence with socio-economic and environmental variables
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)The present research is an attempt to explore pathways to low carbon economy leading to economic growth and employment generation in the transport sector. There are, however, promises and challenges for policy innovation ... -
Global Obstacles to Disruptive Innovation In Sustainable Agriculture and Energy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)The U.S. national innovation system has a dual structure: part suited to rapid innovation, and part stubbornly resistant to change. The complex established “legacy” sectors (CELS) that resist change share common features ... -
Globalization of public-private research in worldwide science: co-publication trends and geographical distances between research partners
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)Science is not just about free flow of scholarly knowledge, technical expertise or advanced skills, it also involves linkages to dense and interconnected partnership networks. Geographical and economic factors also exert ... -
Growth Without Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa's Development
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How Absorptive Capacity is Formed? : Not Explicit but Tacit Knowledge Matters
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)While the literature tend to use in-house R&D as a proxy for absorption capacity and be silent about where this ability of doing R&D has come from, this paper has tried to dig out the origin of absorption capacity after ... -
How Did the US Innovate Before Modern Institutions and Policies?: Battles Over S&T in the Era of Good Feelings, 1816-1829
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This paper investigates the reciprocal causal relationship between technological change and American political-economic development. It will show how colonial science and technology was a political issue, not simply the ... -
How do dimensions of proximity relate to the effective collaboration? A survey of knowledge intensive networks in the Dutch water sector
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)How are proximity and outcomes of collaboration among professionals from science, industry, government and society related? We empirically test this relation for geographical, social, organisational and cognitive proximity, ... -
How Does "Diffusion of Innovations" Explain the "Energy Efficiency Gap" in the Residential Buildings?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)Several technologies offer potential for large energy savings; however, there is a difference between technological potential and actual market behavior, called energy efficiency gap . In this research, Diffusion of ... -
How does the enforcement of intellectual property protection influence innovation and entrepreneurship?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This research introduces a methodology that combines analysis of cited literature and cited patents to explore differences and similarities between nano-biosensor (NBS) science and technology.The analysis of cited literature ... -
How much broad should be the definition of innovation to inform policy decisions for promoting innovation in developing countries? Learning from the Mexican case
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)The discovery that some Japanese firms could compete successfully with their United States counterparts, and later Korean firms and from other newly industrializing countries, contributed to focus the attention of scholars ... -
How Much Research are US Companies Really Doing?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)In recent years, there has been increasing concern over the decline in private sector spending on scientific and technological research in the US. While the total US R&D figures still look impressive when compared with the ... -
How rankings can suppress interdisciplinarity. The case of innovation studies and business and management
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)This investigation compares the degree of interdisciplinarity and impact indicators of Innovation Studies Units and Business and Management Schools. The results illustrate the general disadvantage of interdisciplinarity ... -
How to Break the Vicious Cycle of Technology and Economy in the Backward Regions— Based on Comparative Study of China and the United States
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)Based on the comparison of China and the U.S., this paper found that the level of economic development and R & D Investment Intensity has a strong positive correlation, identified the main factors of influencing the ...