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What's New

HTI(S)-2007 Report
Since the late 1980's, TPAC has been generating national high tech competitiveness indicators. Our recent HTI 2007 report continued the traditional HTI series, showing time series trends for 33 countries. This new formulation expands coverage of service sector aspects. It enhances the statistical components to provide a new perspective on countries’ international knowledge economy products and services.

View HTI 2007 - Statistics Only Report
Read Complete News Release (PDF)
View HTI 2007 Final Report

TPAC Authors Publish on National Technological Competitiveness
See the latest article by Alan Porter and co-authors.

Carbon Footprints
TPAC Associate Marilyn Brown, with two other colleagues, has surprised the environmental policy community with her findings on carbon emissions from U.S. metropolitan areas. The older cities of the East Coast, despite high densities and public transportation systems, have a worse record than newer cities on the West Coast. See coverage at CNN and in the LA Times.

New TPAC Project Report Released
Why does it take so long for energy innovations and best practices to penetrate the marketplace? Some of the answers can be found in a new TPAC project report called Carbon Lock-In: Barriers To Deploying Climate Change Mitigation Technologies. The report, by Marilyn Brown and Jess Chandler, is available here.

TPAC Authors Publish on Measuring Researcher Interdisciplinarity
See the latest article by Alan Porter and co-authors.

TPAC Authors Publish on Competitive Technology Development
See the latest article by Alan Porter and co-authors.

State of Technology in Georgia
The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) announced today that it has selected the Georgia Institute of Technology as the research partner for the 2007 State of the Industry: Technology in Georgia Report. Specifically, they will be working with Susan Cozzens (School of Public Policy) and Jan Youtie (Enterprise Innovation Institute), who will be providing the raw data and some of the analysis that will be used to comprise the report.

“We are very pleased to be partnering with Georgia Tech on this year’s State of the Industry Report,” said Melanie Brandt, Director of Community and Information Resources for TAG. “It’s clear to us that they see the continued release of a comprehensive guide to the technology industry in Georgia as an important component to the advancement of technology in the State; and we are more than confident that they will be able to deliver quality research for this project”

“Technology is an important part of the story of economic development in Georgia, and we are glad to have a chance to help tell the story,” added Cozzens, who is Director of Georgia Tech’s Technology Policy and Assessment Center. “A growing number of states are developing indicators to describe their technology sectors and we are pleased to be part of this ongoing effort of TAG’s in Georgia,” noted Jan Youtie, Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute and director of the program in Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy. Full Article

INNO-Policy: Charting Future Trends in European Innovation Policy
TPAC researchers Philip Shapira and Jan Youtie are starting a new project, "INNO-Policy: Charting Future Trends in European Innovation Policy." INNO-Policy will undertake research and analysis of trends in innovation policy at national and regional levels, policy design and delivery mechanisms, national and regional innovation systems, and the governance of innovation policy, and facilitate awareness of good practice innovation policy measures and transnational learning. The project involves a network of 39 national correspondents in the European Union and elsewhere who will deliver a series of analyses, information templates, innovation progress studies, and thematic workshops.

The project sponsor is the European Union, Directorate General Enterprise and Industry, ProInno Initiative, and the award is to a project consortium comprising IntraSoft International (Belgium) (Coordinator), Technopolis (Belgium), NIFU STEP (Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education, Norway), PREST (University of Manchester, UK), the University of Athens (Greece), and the Georgia Tech Technology Policy and Assessment Center (Georgia Tech School of Public Policy). The Georgia Tech team is led by Prof. Philip Shapira, in association with Dr. Jan Youtie (Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute) and Jue Wang (Georgia Tech School of Public Policy). The Georgia Tech team will undertake innovation policy assessments for the United States and for China, provide guidance for innovation policy assessments undertaken by correspondents in Brazil, Canada, India, and Japan, and serve on the INNO-Policy Project Board.

HTI07 Web Survey
Since the late 1980's, the High-Tech Indicators (HTI) work has been assisted by support from the U.S. National Science Foundation, which has used the results in "Science and Engineering Indicators." These indicators of national competitiveness have been generated on a 3-year cycle for 1987-2002, then shifting to our present 2-year cycle.

We invite you to serve as a member of the International Technology Indicators Panel for the term 2007-2008. We are asking you and other distinguished experts to provide judgments on a series of issues pertaining to national capabilities. We will combine these expert judgments with various quantitative measures of a country's resources and technology-related activities to generate indicators of national technological competitiveness for 33 countries. In particular, we seek to anticipate the extent to which various countries will advance their capabilities to export technology-intensive products and services over the next 15 years.

The 2005 project summary with recent papers and past project information appears on the website (http://tpac.gatech.edu/hti.php). Please respond now to the questions A-P by clicking "High-Tech Indicators," then selecting "HTI 2007 survey". Thank you very much!

EuroNano
Georgia Tech is supporting the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex in an ETEPS project to study best prospects for nanotechnology development in Europe. Alan Porter and Jan Youtie are leading our effort.

Myke-2 Project
The United Nations Development Programme in conjunction with the Economic Planning Unit, Office of the Prime Minister of Malaysia, is awarding TPAC a second phase of research and policy sponsorship for the Study of Knowledge Content in Leading Economic Sectors in Malaysia. The study (also known as Myke-2) will build upon the work and model TPAC developed in 2002-2005, adding new knowledge measurement concepts and analysis and allowing us to develop longitudinal data on knowledge development and innovation for a panel of manufacturing and services companies. Results from that project will appear in Research Policy shortly. The team is comprised of Intelligent Information Services Corporation and TPAC, and the project will run from December 2006 - March 2008.

Researching Inequality through Science and Technology (ResIST)
TPAC is part of a project funded by the European Commission on science, technology, and inequalities. Susan Cozzens is co-leading a sub-project that is developing the conceptual framework for the project, and doctoral students Dhanaraj Thakur, Sonia Gatchair, and Elena Harari are working with her on another subproject which is developing a framework for distributional assessment of emerging technologies, with case studies comparing biotechnologies and information technologies in countries of the global North and global South. Click here for the recent EC press release.

NSF Workshop on Social Organization of Science and Science Policy.
Current calls to the scientific community to develop a new social science of science policy present an exciting opportunity to the social science community to examine current research and thinking about the development and contributions of science policy. As part of its planning in this area, NSF is holding a workshop to discuss the research agenda. Find out more about the workshop

Future-oriented Technology Analyses (FTA) seminar call. This important September 28-29 seminar hosted by IPTS in Seville keys on ways to bring FTA results to bear in technology policy and management processes. Click here for more information.
TPAC has participated in this initiative from 2001. See related papers:
Technology Futures Analysis: Toward Integration of the Field & New Methods
"The Future of Technology Forecasting