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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Science and Technology Policy"”.
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Coordinating science : White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) influence in federal R&D budgets
… White House OSTP in the nation's budgeting for science and technology activities. Interviews conducted by the researcher with members of the White House staff as well as federal agency officials are the primary empirical support, with analysis of annual priority memoranda and presidential budget …
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What helps the development of new vaccine products : an economic analysis of R&D spending in the vaccine industry, the productivity of biotechnological research and related issues in science and technology policy
… an alleged lack of investment in research and development of vaccine products which could offer considerable net benefit to societies, particularly in the developing world. The aim of this thesis is to provide decision support for science and technology policy which aims to promote private …
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Systems Thinking for Prioritizing Technology Research & Development in Public Administration
In Japan's policies on science and technology, the distribution of resources may be done without any theoretical basis. The Cabinet Office, which prepares the basic plan for science and technology policy, and the ministries and agencies that specifically implement science and technology policy …
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A Policy Framework for Developing a National Nanotechnology Program
Molecular nanotechnology has matured in the last thirty-nine years from the germ of an idea by a Nobel Laureate physicist to a rapidly growing international research site with more than $1 billion dollars in annual investment. Although only recently accepted as "mainstream" by the R&D community, …
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Performance Improvements for FDDI and CSMA/CD Protocols
… Initiative from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has defined 20 major challenges in science and engineering which are dependent on the solutions to a number of high-performance computing problems. One of the major areas of focus of this initiative is the development …
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Broadening public input into science policy decision making: can the democratic model for science communication influence scientific, innovation and technological trajectories?
This PhD thesis investigates the potential use of science communication models to engage a broader swathe of actors in decision making in relation to scientific and technological innovation in order to address possible democratic deficits in science and technology policy-making. A four-pronged …
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Un-traded Interdependencies' as a Useful Theory of Regional Economic Development: a comparative study of innovation in Dublin and Beijing
… on the connection between economic geography and economic learning, the study examines the locus of regional innovation in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector in each region (Dublin and Beijing) through small sample survey methodologies. An applied theory project, this …
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Applying Curriculum Treatments to Improve STEM Attitudes and Promote STEM Career Interest in Fifth Graders
… Americans to gain strong STEM skills" (Office of Science and Technology Policy, 2013, p.1). Economically, these skills expand beyond those that make good doctors, professors, and engineers; there is a world of jobs going unfilled because our students are graduating without the skills or knowledge …
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A framework for analyzing the sustainability of peer produced science commons
Contemporary research and development settings are increasingly collaborative and cooperative. Collaborative in the sense that they bring together experts from different scientific and technical cultures in order to address grand challenge science problems (e.g. climate change). Cooperative in the …
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Review of the performance of Zambia's national system of innovation for the period 2001 to 2010
… agreed globally that innovation, knowledge and learning is a vital part of economic development. It creates and promotes competitiveness at the firm level, national and regional levels. Furthermore, innovation processes are dependent on relationships and the interaction of various actors …
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Scientizing Science Policy: Implications for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy and R&D Evaluation
… research, I try to deepen the understanding of the logic and history behind science of science policy approaches and to substitute for this scientific evidence-based science policy model an evidence-critical and -informed model in which scientific and democratic claims are promoted …
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Firm strategies in scientific labor markets
This dissertation expands on the economic geography literature on how and why innovation clusters spatially by taking a closer look at two correlated phenomena: regional specialization and firm clustering. While existing studies note that innovative regions are often highly specialized and highly …
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From 'Hicks' to High Tech: Performative Use in the American Corn Belt
… suggests that the relationship people have with technology (and how they use it to form their identities) has historical genealogies. Engineers and business people will also find my history useful because the notion of 'performative use' means that people's views of themselves can influence the …
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Strategic Competition and Escalation Management in the 21st Century: Russian Hybrid Warfare and China’s Rise
<p>The U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) and the unclassified version of the U.S. National Defense Strategy (NDS) both focus on China and Russia as preeminent challenges for the United States. The NDS states specifically, “Long-term strategic competitions with China and Russia are the principal …
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A Multi-Case Study of Electronic Communication Policy in Rural East Texas School Districts
… of this descriptive case study was to conduct a policy analysis regarding electronic communication between educators and students in three rural East Texas school districts. The policy analysis for each district began with the initial implementation of teacher communication via electronic sources …
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Risk, Oil Spills, and Governance: Can Organizational Theory Help Us Understand the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?
… damage along their coastlines presented by new technology in deep water drilling. Normal accident theory and high reliability theory offer a framework through which to view the 2010 spill that features predictive criteria linked to a qualitative assessment of risk presented by technology and …
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The Relevance of Economic, Institutional and Cultural Determinants for Venture Capital Investments. A US-Europe Comparison.
… </em>as a proxy for the technological and innovation capacity in a country as well as a higher value in the <em>NASDAQ Composite Index </em>as a proxy for general stock market conditions result in a higher amount of early-stage VC investments. Moreover, the results reveal that favorable …
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Public Acceptance of Medical Screening Recommendations, Safety Risks, and Implied Liabilities Requirements for Space Flight Participation
… to send space flight participants on orbital and suborbital flights. Space flight participants are not professional astronauts and are not subject to the rules and guidelines covering space flight crewmembers. This research addresses public acceptance of current Federal Aviation Administration …
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Information Sharing, Transparency, and E-Governance Among County Government Offices in Southeastern Michigan
… commonly described as being the leading users and beneficiaries of electronic information services, businesses and governments are also players in the arena for sharing official information. Information can be easily stored on Internet websites for the public, businesses, and other governmental …