Space Policy for the Twenty-First Century
Wendy N. Whitman Cobb
A foundational resource for both students and professionals, this book provides a comprehensive, accessible overview of major space policies in the United States and a framework through which to analyze them.
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781683404064
- Publication Date: Apr 2024
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Botswana Science, Technology, and Innovation Foresight
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9789210029575
- Publication Date: Apr 2024
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Emerging Developments and Technologies in Digital Government
Yuanyuan Guo
As the digital government field continues to evolve rapidly, scholars and professionals must stay ahead of the curve by developing innovative solutions and gaining comprehensive insights. The global landscape of digital governance is undergoing transformative shifts, necessitating a deep understanding of historical developments, current practices, and emerging trends. This urgent demand for knowledge forms the crux of the problem that the book, Emerging Developments and Technologies in Digital Government , addresses with expert knowledge and insights. The book serves as an indispensable resource for academic scholars grappling with the complexities of digital government. It critically examines historical transitions from technology-centric paradigms to people-centric models, shedding light on the global impact of open data initiatives and the vital role of human-computer interaction in reshaping government websites. For professionals and researchers across disciplines such as library sciences, administrative management, sociology, and information technology, this book becomes a beacon, offering insights and tangible solutions to navigate the multifaceted dimensions of digital government.
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9798369323632
- Publication Date: Apr 2024
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Firm Social Capital and the Innovation Process
Christopher Lee Parrish
Firm Social Capital and the Innovation Process conceptualizes, measures, and evaluates social capital as a productive input for innovative firms. The empirical results presented in this monograph suggest that social capital may have significant importance in the production of innovative outcomes.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781638282525
- Publication Date: Aug 2023
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Glocal Policy and Strategies for Blockchain
Gülsün Kurubacak
Blockchain has the potential to revolutionize how people and organizations, who may not know or trust each other, share information and carry out transactions online. Nearly every institution on the planet wants to be a leader in blockchain technology as well as a home to significant platforms, applications, and companies. There is a need for a glocal policy to meet and support these goals as blockchain technology must embrace glocal values and ideals in its legal and regulatory frameworks. Glocal Policy and Strategies for Blockchain: Building Ecosystems and Sustainability discusses the features and advantages of blockchain technology, the innovative applications of blockchain technology, and the potent and limited aspects of blockchain technology. Covering topics such as digital change, international policy, and cyber security governance, this reference work is ideal for industry professionals, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781668441534
- Publication Date: May 2023
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Drivers of International Research Spending
Rajeev K. Goel
Drivers of International Research Spending contributes to the literature on the economics of technical change in two ways. First, it provides an overview and a critical appraisal of the literature on the drivers of research spending, especially focusing on the extant empirical studies in recent years.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781638280866
- Publication Date: Jan 2023
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The Returns to Publicly Funded R&D
Albert N. Link
The Returns to Publicly Funded R&D focuses on the returns to U.S. public-sector investments in R&D and the accompanying new empirical analysis relates specifically to the returns to public-sector R&D expenditures in U.S. Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs).
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781680839449
- Publication Date: May 2022
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Innovation Barriers, Indicators and Policies
Diego R. de Moraes Silva
Innovation Barriers, Indicators and Policies explores the historical coevolution of these three core concepts in the field: barriers, indicators, and policies. The authors show how these concepts have coevolved and reinforced each other throughout the history of Innovation Studies.
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- ISBN: 9781680839302
- Publication Date: Feb 2022
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The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN)
Ahmad Najib Burhani
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9789815011159
- Publication Date: Jan 2022
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Government Royalties on Sales of Pharmaceutical and Other Biomedical Products Developed with Substantial Public Funding
Robert S. Danziger
This study develops a detailed description of the successful technology transfer of an invention — the drug-eluting coronary stent — originating in intramural research within the US National Institutes of Health.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781680838206
- Publication Date: Sep 2021
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Case Studies of Successful Technology Transfer from Federal Laboratories
Gretchen B. Jordan
This monograph presents a case study protocol and analyses of nine technology transfer success stories across federal agencies and their research laboratories to begin to fill a gap in the existing literature where there is less available research on the impact and the mechanisms of technology transfer from federal labs.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781680838084
- Publication Date: Jun 2021
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Toward More Effective Science and Technology Advice for Congress
Peter D. Blair
Toward More Effective Science and Technology Advice for Congress traces the historical roots of science and technology advice for Congress and chronicles the creation and evolution of the four organizations that provided this advice over the past half century.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781680838022
- Publication Date: Apr 2021
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The Globalization of the Bayh–Dole Act
Thorsten Gores
This monograph examines an overlooked metric associated with the impact of the Bayh-Dole Act, namely its effect on influencing university-based technology transfer policies in other countries. To substantiate this thesis, Bayh-Dole like university technology transfer policies in 20 other countries are reviewed.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781680837544
- Publication Date: Jan 2021
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Globalization and the High-Tech Policy Response
Gregory Tassey
This monograph makes the case that U.S. economic growth policy has not responded to the growing competitive pressures from globalization. It systematically documents and analyzes the set of policies and investment trends and resulting impacts on rates of growth over the post World War II era.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781680836905
- Publication Date: Jul 2020
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Public Support of Private Innovation
John W. Hardin
Public Support of Private Innovation describes the One North Carolina Small Business Program’s purpose and history, as well as offer an assessment of whether it has met its stated goals and objectives.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781680836745
- Publication Date: Jun 2020
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Innovation by Design
David A. Wolfe
This monograph examines the conceptual and program models that exist for the design and implementation of government support of business innovation at different jurisdictional levels – from the national to the regional.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781680836141
- Publication Date: Dec 2019
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Assessing the Role of the Federal Government in the Development of New Products, Industries, and Companies
Sandra E. Price
This monograph examines the role of the federal government in the development of major innovations; specifically identifying and describing major products, industries, and firms resulting from U.S. government funding of research in the years since World War II (WWII).
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781680836486
- Publication Date: Dec 2019
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The Economic Impacts of the Advanced Encryption Standard, 1996–2017
David P. Leech
This monograph evaluates the net social benefits of advanced encryption standards.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781680835885
- Publication Date: Oct 2019
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Nanotechnology
Joshua Gorsuch
This monograph provides a nontechnical reference source of the relevant social science and policy literature on nanotechnology. The authors hope to engender not only a greater appreciation of the economic and social benefits of nanotechnology but also to encourage more extensive research and public support of this technology.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781680834987
- Publication Date: Dec 2018
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The Interweaving of Diffusion Research and American Science and Technology Policy
Irwin Feller
This monograph weaves together a history of theories of the diffusion of innovations in selected academic disciplines, tracing the influence of these theories in the formulation of national science and technology policies for 1960 to present.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781680834741
- Publication Date: Aug 2018
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