{"title":"Community-based Research and Development (R&D) patterns in the Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS) sector","authors":"P. Catalán","doi":"10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5367829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5367829","url":null,"abstract":"I explore patterns in regard to community based Research and Development in the Water Supply and Sanitation sector. I set a bibliometric analysis, covering the 1998–2008 period, by means of applying a framework based on three factors: productivity, collaboration, and research topics, which are analyzed at global and country level. Results show: a) Northern countries are the most productive ones; b) though not significant as it should, North-South collaboration is increasing; and c) Southern concerns do not represent a major share of Northern R&D, though an upward is noted.","PeriodicalId":280544,"journal":{"name":"2009 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129702929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of Brazilian firms in nanotechnology development","authors":"Luciano Kay, Noela Invernizzi, P. Shapira","doi":"10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5407593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5407593","url":null,"abstract":"Brazil is the leading country in nanotechnology research in Latin America and has been the first to implement a national policy to stimulate the productive sector to innovate in that emerging field. Based on Georgia Tech global databases of nanotechnology scientific publications and patents, we analyze the role of Brazilian firms in the development of nanotechnology, their research and commercialization activities, their collaborations, and their engagement with nanotechnology programs. We look in particular at nine case studies of leading firms. Our data show that the nanotechnology policy has stimulated research in companies in close collaboration with universities and research centers. However, most of those companies were already within a very select group of innovative firms or are very dynamic starts-ups. Overall, companies still exhibit a low innovation profile in nanotechnology, in line with the overall poor industry innovation landscape of the country.","PeriodicalId":280544,"journal":{"name":"2009 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129984376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation system for the Russian academy of sciences: Objectives-Resources-Results approach and R&D indicators","authors":"I. Zatsman, Olga Kozhunova","doi":"10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5367832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5367832","url":null,"abstract":"In the present paper we are describing Semantic dictionary as a part of the RAS Evaluation system, subsystem for RAS decision-makers and experts, Objectives-Resources-Results approach to the system design, and a stage-indicator table.","PeriodicalId":280544,"journal":{"name":"2009 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129729654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing the evaluation framework of technology foresight program: lesson learned from European countries","authors":"S. S. Li, M. Kang, L. C. Lee","doi":"10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5367821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5367821","url":null,"abstract":"Foresight activities are valued in many countries since 1990s due to their long term strategic planning. These governments consequently allocate most resources in these foresight activities. As a result, the paper mainly develops the evaluation framework of technology foresight program, by integrating the concepts of evaluation and logic framework with the experience of foresight evaluation from developed countries, for instance European Union, Britain etc., to realize the outcomes of implementing foresight act ivies. Taking Sweden as a case study, the paper is also proposed to show the effectiveness of this new framework.","PeriodicalId":280544,"journal":{"name":"2009 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy","volume":"191 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122054183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A systematic technology forecasting approach for New and Emerging Science and Technology: Case study of nano-enhanced biosensors","authors":"Lu Huang, Ying Guo, A. Porter","doi":"10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5367839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5367839","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the topic of anticipating likely development paths for a particular “New and Emerging Science & Technology” (NES&T). Characteristics of NES&T - technological uncertainty and contextual dynamics - pose challenges for technology management and forecasting practices. Researchers, technologists, R&D managers, staff in funding agencies and policy makers “need to know” future prospects. This requires better ways to capture NES&T development patterns, within their socio-economic context, as well as likely innovation opportunities. A new technology forecasting framework for NES&Ts is presented, supported by a case study of nano-enhanced biosensors.","PeriodicalId":280544,"journal":{"name":"2009 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132214429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technology clustering: The case of Greece","authors":"P. Michaelides, A. Belegri-Roboli","doi":"10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5367830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5367830","url":null,"abstract":"In the globalization era, economic research has consistently shown that innovation effects tend to be clustered. Greece is among the oldest members of the E.U., one of the laggards in productivity and competitiveness in the wider E.U. and ranks very low in attracting foreign investments. In this paper, the various sectors of economic activity in Greece have been assembled into clusters presenting similar technology and growth characteristics which have a significant influence upon the productivity and competitiveness of the economy, by applying the Cluster Analysis methodology. In this way, the twenty-one sectors of economic activity are divided into three main sectors (i.e. primary, secondary, and tertiary) which are, in general terms, consistent with the structure of the total economy. Finally, some comments are made concerning policy issues for Greece.","PeriodicalId":280544,"journal":{"name":"2009 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy","volume":"430 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134111418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cooperation for innovation as knowledge exchanges: a view from innovation surveys","authors":"C. Bianchi, N. Gras, J. Sutz","doi":"10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5367861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5367861","url":null,"abstract":"The main assumption of the paper is that cooperation for innovation is a knowledge exchange process, driven by people. It stresses the importance of knowing who knows what -and does what- in the firms. The cooperative behavior of firms in innovative activities is analyzed from several data sources and using such data in different ways. The results obtained show unmistakably that “scientifically and technically trained employees” are among the most relevant variables to understanding the cooperation for innovation within the Uruguayan industry.","PeriodicalId":280544,"journal":{"name":"2009 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134133043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new metric for assessing group level participation in fluid teams","authors":"Susannah B. F. Paletz, C. Schunn","doi":"10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5367817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5367817","url":null,"abstract":"Equality of participation is an important factor in the success of multidisciplinary science teams. The typical measure, standard deviation, fails to provide unbiased estimates across groups of different sizes or within groups that change size over time. We propose a new metric of participation equality that takes into account real-world teams that have members come and go naturally over the course of a meeting. This new metric ranges from zero (entirely equal participation) to one (entirely dominated by a single person). This metric is at the group level and for whatever period of time the researcher specifies. Using 11 hours of transcribed utterances from informal, fluid, co-located meetings during the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission, we computed this metric for 549 blocks of time. We found that this metric had good convergent validity via having strong positive correlations with both a standard deviation metric of words spoken and participation equality as assessed by two independent coders. It also had good discriminant validity by being uncorrelated with positive and negative affect words, including anxiety and sadness words. Furthermore, when only fluid groups were examined, it maintained a strong correlation with coder-assessed participation. Future research can take advantage of this metric in other settings where team membership is fluid and equality of participation is of interest.","PeriodicalId":280544,"journal":{"name":"2009 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133460622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Maaza, Myron N. V. Williams, I. Khan, A. Msezane, James L. Reed
{"title":"The international research and educational programs of Clark Atlanta University's center for functional nanoscale materials","authors":"M. Maaza, Myron N. V. Williams, I. Khan, A. Msezane, James L. Reed","doi":"10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5367840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5367840","url":null,"abstract":"The formal collaboration and partnership of CFNM with iThemba LABS has been successfully implemented. Based on our research outcomes and a better understanding and appreciation of our colleagues in South Africa, we will keep moving forward in a very holistic manner i.e. science, culture and friendship integrated in all our efforts. This is the first time we operated a summer IREU and it was a success, resulting in positive scientific and educational outcomes. We will use our programmatic element from this summer IREU to formally develop Clark Atlanta University into an international REU site for South Africa.","PeriodicalId":280544,"journal":{"name":"2009 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121319480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A comparative political theory of national science provision","authors":"S. Cunningham","doi":"10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5367824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACSIP.2009.5367824","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the hypothesis that the national funding of science is a product of the process of governance. In support of this idea comparative theories of national governance are mustered. A mixed regression model is developed which examines the explanatory power of economic and political variables in determining science funding in an extended sample of OECD nations.","PeriodicalId":280544,"journal":{"name":"2009 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116763630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}