Browsing 2011 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy by Issue Date
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Working in Open Innovation. How to Determine Networks and Their Relationship Using Techmining
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This article provides an overview of the main actors in the waste recycled sector mining research results and scientifical databases. The paper offers a comprehensive view of the main players and their relations, the ... -
Public Policy Instruments in (re)building National Innovation Capabilities: Cases of Nanotechnology Development in China, Russia and Brazil
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)The paper seeks to understand the role of emerging technologies in breaking institutionally the development lock-in and supporting self-sustained growth through analyzing broad socioeconomic impacts of nanotechnology in ... -
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 ... -
Patterns of Complex Product Innovation in Government Organizations: Insights from NASA
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This research uses data from six detailed longitudinal process studies of technology infusion at NASA to illustrate limitations of current conceptual models of the innovation process in large bureaucratic organizations. ... -
Nanotechnology and the Millennium Development Goals: Energy, Water, and Agri-food
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)We analyzed the progress in pro-poor nanotechnology applications in energy, water, and agrifood sectors in achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). We considered the results from an international panel of ... -
Resources and Research: An Empirical Study of the Influence of Departmental Research Resources on Academic Researchers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of departmental research resources, on the behavior of academic researchers in STEM fields. Specifically, the paper develops three models to examine the influence of ... -
Cosmopolitanism in Science: A Productivity Study
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)Engaging concepts inherent to knowledge production studies, we examine Merton s cosmopolitanism ideal type through a contemporary lens regarding the role of cosmopolitan dimensions in shaping scientific output. Using survey ... -
Validating Measures of Interdisciplinarity: Linking Bibliometric Measures to Ethnographic Studies of Engineering Research Labs
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This paper reflects the results to date of an ongoing project that is examining how the results of specific examples of interdisciplinary research are reflected in scholarly publications over time. We seek to compare ... -
Coordination through power in University-Industry R&D projects
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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, ... -
Commercialization of New and Emerging Technologies:A Cross Country Comparison of Graphene Firms
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This research employs a web-scraping methodology to 1) investigate country level differences among twenty graphene SMEs and 2) devise several measures that gauge the extent to which firm specialization in graphene coincides ... -
The Diverse Variables To Consider When Planning and Assessing Public Research Portfolios
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)Analysis of public research portfolios should reflect the life cycle of the innovation process. This paper will characterize and organize the variables that could be considered in portfolio analysis for publicly funded ... -
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 ... -
Real Option Valuation of R&D Projects: Consideration of Portfolio Effects
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This analysis focuses on portfolios of R&D projects, rather than individual R&D projects. It explores the effect of portfolio diversification on risk and identifies both theoretical and practical considerations relevant ... -
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 ... -
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 ...