Browsing College of Liberal Arts - Ivan Allen College (IAC) by Title
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$10 Million For Your Thoughts?
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, 2007) -
The “10/90 Gap” in Health Related Nanotechnology Research
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)This paper examines inequality within nanohealth research. After conducting a bibliometric analysis of Web of Science and PubMed, I conclude that most nanotechnology research is geared towards diseases that affect the rich ... -
16 Years of Living Space Policy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-09-03)Dr. Sandy Magnus will speak about the international issues and space policy developments she encountered during her career as a NASA astronaut. Dr. Magnus flew on the final shuttle flight, STS-135, in 2011. She also flew ... -
The $4 Trillion Gamble: The Political Economy of the Emerging Global Information and Communication Infrastructure
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A cross country investigation of social enterprise innovation: a multilevel modelling approach
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-04-08)This dissertation presents a multilevel model of national-level factors and their impact on the organizational-level characteristics of social enterprises and their innovations. This study builds on the foundations of ... -
A Qualitative Study on Engaging Students in Computing Through Computational Remixing with EarSketch
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-05-02)Computer Science fields have a difficult time engaging underrepresented populations such as African Americans and women. EarSketch is an approach to engage these student through authentic STEAM learning involving computational ... -
Absorptive capacity in software industry: Comparative analysis of two Mexican regions, Baja California and Guadalajara
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)Understanding on the role that region plays in the innovation processes has increased in the last years; in the same way, the necessity to develop the firm absorptive capacity has been shown in an important way. If a ... -
Absorptive capacity of information and knowledge through Interfaces in the customized software industry: the case of micro and small-sized Mexican firms
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)This paper contributes the understanding of how interface allows to the producers identify specific information and knowledge from the users (and other agents), and how it influences on firm’s absorptive capacity. We suppose ... -
Academic entrepreneurship and state science policy: lessons from state support for stem cell research
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Academic Entrepreneurship and State Stem Cell Policy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)Ethical controversy over human embryonic stem cell research has led this field to be regulated by an atypically heterogeneous policy environment. This analysis takes advantage of one such area of heterogeneity, the presence ... -
Academic inbreeding: new insights for academic based research and recruitment
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)This paper analyzes the impact of academic inbreeding in relation to academic research and proposes a new conceptual framework for its analysis. We find that mobility at the early research career stage is decisive in ... -
Academic Productivity: The Added Value of Friendship
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)This paper seeks to explain the mechanisms by which friendship affects productivity of academic scientists. The quality of professional relationships determines the individual scientists' ability to pool resources from ... -
Academy-Industry interactions at three different stages of the linking process: Micro evidence from the perspective of both agents
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-07)Academy-industry linkages can play an important role for economic development. Both agents can benefit from interaction, but they have a different perspective regarding the reasons to interact, the main knowledge flows and ... -
Accelerating the formation of regional systems of innovation in Mexico? Understanding the effects of the Technology Business Accelerator Program in the formation of resources and capabilities to innovate in Mexican regions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)My doctoral dissertation research project uses the case of the Mexico’s Technology Business Accelerator (TechBA) program in order to advance our understanding of whether a business acceleration program can enhance the ... -
Accelerating the formation of regional systems of innovation in Mexico? Understanding the effects of the Technology Business Accelerator Program in the formation of resources and capabilities to innovate in Mexican regions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008)In 2004 the Mexican Government launched the Technology Business Accelerator (TechBA) program, an initiative that seeks to help the best small and medium Mexican technology companies to access and compete in international ... -
Access to information: The dilemma for rural community development in Africa
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-08)The provision of information services in Africa has been dispersed and access to various information services has become more difficult; the principal victims of these developments have been rural people without having any ... -
ACOPANELA cooperative´s networking capabilities and innovative performance, producing and marketing natural raw sugar - panela - for dynamic markets
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-16)A key barrier to upgrading the individual and associative innovative performance and competitiveness of firms in rural areas is that El Salvador s productive systems and the systems of public and private actors responsible ... -
Acquiring technology in a global economy: investigating the case of developing countries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005) -
Activities Without Institutionalization: Limits and Lessons of TA and TA-Like Activities in Japan
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10)Even though the TA has not been institutionalized in Japan, there have been many TA and TA- like activities, in areas including food, healthcare, energy and technology strategy, since the idea of TA was introduce from the ... -
Actor-networks, interests and boundary objects in the Cuban biotechnology sector and vaccine industry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-09)Which social and political interests have been influential in the creation of the Cuban biotechnology sector? Is it the needs of the national public health system that are being served, is it scientific knowledge production ...