Browsing 2011 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy by Title
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S&T Policy Evolution: A Comparison Between the United States and China
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)In view of the evolution of Chinese and U.S. American research policy in the past 60 years, the two countries have undergone different stages of development. The S&T policy system in the United States was gradually built ... -
S&T Policy Scorecard: The Effects of S&T Policy Mechanisms on the Economy
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Science Administration Across Divisions, Laboratories, and Offices of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health(NIOSH) Science Administration Health of Science (HoS) Committee defined and conducted an initiative to gather information regarding how each division, laboratory, ... -
Science and Technology (S&T) Legislative Landscape: Mapping State-Level S&T Legislation in the US
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)The Office of Policy Analysis and Research at the Georgia Tech Research Institute collects,analyzes and classifies state-level legislation on various science and technology topics across the country. This paper presents ... -
Science and Technology Policy in Brazil: an Analysis of the Recent Period
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)The paper analyzes the agenda of science and technology policy (STP) in Brazil. We conclude that although there has been some change in the speech surrounding STP, the policy agenda itself has not changed significantly. ... -
Science Leadership: Is it What You Know, Who You Know, or Who You Are?
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Science, Technology and Innovation in the Climate Change Era: Guyana’s Avoided Deforestation Blueprint and Human Well-Being
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Science, Technology and Innovation Studies as an Input to Policy-making: an Exploratory Study of Citations in UK Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Documents (1990-2010)
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)Publications on science, technology and innovation (STI) policy have increased recently. Analysing citations in UK policy documents (1990-2010), this paper notes the institutions, authors, and journals. Four policy fields ... -
Scientists as Entrepreneurs - Do They Fit the Stereotype?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)Scientists are exhorted to be more entrepreneurial yet whether they display entrepreneurial characteristics, such as risk taking and ambiguity tolerance, is not studied. We mapped how Institute researchers perceived ... -
Searching for Hot Fields in Science
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)Dynamics of science is a long-standing research topic in a wide spectrum of domains. In order to analyse the dynamics of science we are working on a methodology to scan bibliographic data from the WoS-database in order to ... -
Setting the Strategic Research Areas in the Government-funded Strategic Research in Japan
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Sing Hallelujah! American Success Examples in Norwegian Science and Innovation Policy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)This paper will analyze the use of international success examples in science and innovation policy debates and practice in Norway, particularly related to the establishment of science parks in the 1980s and TTOs in the ... -
SME Patenting - an Empirical Analysis in Nine Countries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)The analyses use a unique integrated and enriched patent data set to examine the participation rate of SMEs in the patenting activities in nine countries since the mid 1990s in total as well as by technological areas. Next ... -
Social and Technological Entrepreneurship -- Do the Twain Ever Meet?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)Entrepreneurship is an enduring theme in innovation studies and a long-standing object of innovation policy. Social enterprises broadly defined, are those which apply business principles to solve social problems. This paper ... -
Societal Impact of Academic Research Through Networks
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This paper is about influence of governance of research networks on societal impact. We have studied two Dutch national research consortia of universities, governments and industry. Through comparison, we learn i) how ... -
State-led Technological Development: A Case of China's Nanotechnology Development
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)We analyze the nanotechnology patent applications filed in China from 1998 to 2008 and find that the extraordinary nanotechnology development in China has been primarily promoted by the public sector but not driven by ... -
STEM Education Partnerships: The Influence of Policy Inducements and Embedded Relations on the Formation and Operations of Partnerships
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Strategic Innovation Policy (SIP): A Systems Evolutionary Perspective With Examples
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Studying the Impact of Research Funding Schemes: From the Construction of Opportunities to Attributable Change
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)In this paper we present a novel methodological approach for measuring and attributing the impact that depends on an understanding of the causal processes linking the funding schemes to changes in the content of research, ... -
Supporting 'Frontier Research': The Limitations of Peer Review
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)The study focuses on the peer review practices as they have emerged in the new European Research Council, the reviewers understanding of excellence and frontier research , and the considerations concerning risks and ...