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INVITATION LETTER FOR 1999 HTI WEBSITE SURVEY

Invitation
Home Invitation Questionnaire HTI96 Report

TO: Distinguished Colleague

FROM: David Roessner, Alan Porter, and Xiao-Yin Jin

We invite you to serve as a member of the International Technology Indicators Panel for the term 1999-2001. We are asking you and other distinguished experts to provide judgments on a series of questions pertaining to particular nations. We will combine these expert judgments with various quantitative measures of a country's resources and technology-related activities to generate current values for a set of indicators of national technological competitiveness for 33 countries. These indicators are intended to inform both policy-makers and scholars interested in the rapidly evolving patterns of technological capabilities. In particular, we seek to anticipate the extent to which various countries will advance their capabilities to export technology-intensive products over the next 15 years. This work is assisted by a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation, which used the results of our work in the 1994, 1996 and 1998 volumes of Science and Engineering Indicators, and in a 1995 Special Report, Asia’s New High-Tech Competitors. A summary of the 1996 project that presents some representative results and available publications appears on our website: http://tpac.gatech.edu.

Your service on this distinguished Panel will entail only a small amount of your time. At this time, we ask you to provide judgments using the enclosed survey (click above "Questionnaire Button") for one, or as many as three, countries with which you are most familiar. Please repeat the same procedures to fill out a questionnaire for each country if you are familiar with 2 or 3 countries.

We wish to acknowledge your participation by citing the Panel's contribution in our reports. We will also provide you with an electronic certificate indicating your service on this Panel, as well as share our findings with you. In return for a bit of your time, service on the panel will provide you with early information on vital, new indicators and a modicum of professional recognition. Also, to show our appreciation, we will offer to all those who respond (unless you are ineligible), the chance to win one of five $50 gift certificates to amazon.com, the Internet Bookstore.

Some experts have participated in our 1987, 1990, 1993, and/or 1996 surveys. This work builds directly on those efforts, and we plan to repeat this procedure in 2002. For those of you joining us for the first time, note that the focus is on "technology-intensive products" -- that is, high value-added products primarily oriented toward commercial (rather than defense) sectors. Examples of such products include, but are not limited to, aerospace, chemicals & plastics, computers, software, machines tools & robotics, medicine & biologicals, microelectronics, scientific/precision equipment, and telecommunications equipment.

The survey questions pertain to four underlying factors related to development of a national capacity to manufacture technology-intensive products:

national orientation (explicit or implicit national commitment to stimulate technological development)
socio-economic infrastructure (the underlying physical, financial, and human resources needed to support technology-intensive product development)
technological infrastructure (scientific and engineering knowledge and technical resources necessary for technology-intensive product development)
productive capacity (in-place manufacturing capabilities and structures that support industrial enterprise)

Please respond  now to the questions by clicking the Questionnaire button.

Also, If you have any questions about the study, you can contact either of the following to us:
via e-mail to Xiao-Yin Jin (j.xiyiu@isye.gatech.edu).
via fax to Xiao-Yin Jin at (404) 894-8573.
via phone (404-894-6703 for Jin, or 404-894-2330 for Porter).
via mail to Xiao-Yin Jin, Technology Policy and Assessment Center (TPAC), Georgia Institute of Technology, 781 Marietta Street, Atlanta, GA 30332-0525, USA.
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