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        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">A 
          Summary of the HTI Work at Georgia Tech and 1996 Report</font></p>
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      <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Indicator development 
        work at Georgia Tech has proceeded in phases. </font></p>
      <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The first phase, 
        begun in 1987, developed a conceptual model of the processes by which 
        industrializing nations gain access to external technology and technical 
        information, absorb that technology/information effectively, and institutionalize 
        a science-based development and manufacturing capability leading to export-led 
        growth in high technology products. Four &quot;input&quot; or leading 
        indicators of a nation's future capacity (15-year time horizon) to compete 
        in international markets in high technology products were developed, as 
        were three &quot;output&quot; indicators of a nation's current international 
        competitiveness. During this first phase, the indicators were applied 
        to data for twenty countries representing a range of regions and extent 
        of industrialization.</font></p>
      <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The second phase 
        used data on an expanded set of 29 countries to examine in detail 
        the indicators' reliability and validity. The conceptual model and the 
        results of this phase are summarized in J.D. Roessner, A.L. Porter, and 
        H. Xu, &quot;National Capacities to Absorb and Institutionalize External 
        Science and Technology,&quot; Technology Analysis &amp; Strategic Management, 
        Vol. 4, No. 2 (1992). </font></p>
      <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In the third phase 
        of indicators work (1992-1995), we developed recommended formulae 
        for seven indicators whose definitions followed the recommendations specified 
        in the previous phase, applied them to generate a set of indicators using 
        these recommended formulations, tested the value of the indicators for 
        policy and scholarly purposes, and tested further the processes of data 
        collection and verification. The results of this phase were published 
        in two articles: David Roessner, Alan Porter, Nils Newman, and David Cauffiel, 
        &quot;Anticipating the Future High-Tech Competitiveness of Nations: Indicators 
        for Twenty-Eight Countries,&quot; Technological Forecasting and Social 
        Change, 51, 1 (January 1996): 133-149; and Alan Porter, David Roessner, 
        Nils Newman, and David Cauffiel, &quot;Indicators of High-Tech Competitiveness 
        of 28 Countries,&quot; International Journal of Technology Management, 
        12, 1 (1996): 1-32. </font></p>
      <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">After nearly ten years of research 
        and testing of a set of High Tech indicators at Georgia Tech, a reporting 
        of results in Science and Engineering Indicators 1993, and completion 
        of the phase three final report, it was timely and appropriate to move 
        from indicator development and testing to routine data collection and 
        reporting. This 1996 summary report describes the major results obtained 
        during the first of the &quot;routine&quot; data collection and analysis 
        phases of indicator research. Please hit the following 'Hover 
        Button' for more detail information.&nbsp; </font></p>
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