Browsing 2011 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy by Title
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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 ... -
Human resources indicators in Colombia: Doctoral studies, mobility and scientific production of researchers for building networks
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)The aim of this paper is measure the relationship between mobility and knowledge generation considering the international collaboration in indexed papers. To achieve this target we defined and characterized a dataset of ... -
The impact of ERC on universities and research organisations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This paper seeks to analyse strategic reactions of universities and research organisations to an external shock i.e. the new funding instruments of the European Research Council. It analyses how changes are mediated through ... -
The Impact of Institution Quality, Cluster Strength and TLO Licensing Capacity on the Rate of Academic Staff Spin-offs
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)This paper examines the spawning of new company founders' from 124 leading U.S. academic institutions, using a unique database. We examine both local and non-local spin-offs of academic faculty members. Accordingly, the ... -
The Impact of Offshoring on the Innovation Trajectories of Firms and Individuals
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)Between 2000 and 2005, a lot of U.S. optoelectronic component firms moved manufacturing offshore. This research studies the impact of manufacturing offshore affects the innovation trajectories at firm and individual level. ... -
Impact of research funding on nanobiotechnology scientific production: does concentration in a few universities make sense
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This study measures the impact of university-funded research and collaboration on scientific production of Canadian nanobiotechnology academics. Results suggest that individual funding and a strong position in the past ... -
Impacts of the ERC on the research funding landscape in Europe
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)The paper studies early impacts of the recently established European Research Council on the national funding councils in the EU member states. An important part of the paper is a discussion of an appropriate conceptual ... -
The Indian Automotive Industry: Enhancing innovation capability with external and internal resources
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)India s automotive industry is one of the successful cases of India s economic liberalisation strategy set into motion since 1991. The industry which was dominated by a few domestic manufacturers was hardly known for any ... -
The influence of research on policy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This study investigates linkage and relationship between research and policy, discusses research dissemination and research utilisation in policy practice, studies two cases of how research can be contributed to policy ... -
Informing U.S. International Science and Technology (S&T) Engagement Strategies Using Bibliometrics and International Collaborative Networks
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)The IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute sought to examine options for U.S. international scientific engagement with nine countries of interest by developing an objective approach using bibliometric and network ... -
InnoScape: A Creative Artificial Ecosystem Model of Boundary Processes in Open Science
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)Innovation communities are characterized and formalized as complex adaptive communication systems that exhibit the traits of self-organized creative artificial ecosystems. An agent-based exploratory simulation study is ... -
Innovation and Public Goods: Implications for Policymaking and Economic Development
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)Based on recent findings of an empirical study (Dutrénit, et al, 2011) funded by the Mexican Ministry of Economy, this paper examines the nature of innovation in developing countries (emphasizing the case of México) and ...