Browsing 2011 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy by Title
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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 ... -
System of Innovation and Its Relevance for the Emergence of New Technology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This study aims to examine how features of key actors within system of innovation in Taiwan function together to shape patterns in the development of the newly emergent technology. Cloud computing is chosen as example. ... -
Systemic Data Infrastructure for Innovation Policy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)Progress on the vision laid out in the Science of Science Policy Roadmap requires a move to system level thinking and analysis in the study of technology development. System level analysis will require systemic data ... -
Technical Innovation, Scientific Productivity, and Components of Power
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)The scientific research laboratory is the social setting wherein the knowledge production process is likely to occur, and is subject to variances in power. Thus, we will examine the relationship between the dimensions of ... -
Technological Catch-down to Build Capacity - a Case Study of the Chinese Mobile Phone Industry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)The paper examined a relative new phnomenon-shanzhai mobile phones in the Chinese telecommunication industry. It has framed the phenomenon into the catch-up theory while admitting the unique characteristics, adopting a ... -
Technologies for Social Inclusion in Latin America. Analysing opportunities and constraints; problems and solutions in Argentina and Brazil
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)Are current welfare policies well addressed to erase social exclusion? Which role does S&T policy play in solving social problems? We undertake a critical analysis of current strategies for fighting social exclusion in ...