158 Ebook di Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science
Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Innovative Flanders
Recognizing that innovation is the key to international competitiveness in the 21st century, policymakers around the world are seeking more effective ways to translate scientific and technological kn …
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Committee on the Competitiveness and Workforce Needs of U.S. Industry & National Research Council: Innovation in Global Industries
The debate over offshoring of production, transfer of technological capabilities, and potential loss of U.S. competitiveness is a long-running one. Prevailing thinking is that "the world is flat …
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Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: 21st Century Innovation Systems for Japan and the United States
Recognizing that a capacity to innovate and commercialize new high-technology products is increasingly a key for the economic growth in the environment of tighter environmental and resource constrain …
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Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Understanding Research, Science and Technology Parks
Many nations are currently adopting a variety of directed strategies to launch and support research parks, often with significant financial commitments and policy support. By better understanding how …
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Committee on the Competitiveness and Workforce Needs of U.S. Industry & National Research Council: Innovation in Global Industries
The debate over offshoring of production, transfer of technological capabilities, and potential loss of U.S. competitiveness is a long-running one. Prevailing thinking is that "the world is flat …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Future of Photovoltaics Manufacturing in the United States
Technological innovation and growth are critical to U.S. competitiveness in a global economy. One means of facilitating growth and improving competitiveness is to foster more robust innovation ecosys …
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€58.97
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Intangible Assets
Intangible assetswhich include computer software, research and development (R&D), intellectual property, workforce training, and spending to raise the efficiency and brand identification of firmscomp …
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Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Understanding Research, Science and Technology Parks
Many nations are currently adopting a variety of directed strategies to launch and support research parks, often with significant financial commitments and policy support. By better understanding how …
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Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology: Hidden Costs of Energy
Despite the many benefits of energy, most of which are reflected in energy market prices, the production, distribution, and use of energy causes negative effects. Many of these negative effects are n …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Intangible Assets
Intangible assetswhich include computer software, research and development (R&D), intellectual property, workforce training, and spending to raise the efficiency and brand identification of firmscomp …
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Committee on the Competitiveness and Workforce Needs of U.S. Industry & National Research Council: Dragon and the Elephant
The return of the once-dormant economies of China and India to dynamism and growth is one of the most remarkable stories in recent history. The two countries are home to nearly 40 percent of the worl …
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Committee on the Competitiveness and Workforce Needs of U.S. Industry & National Research Council: Dragon and the Elephant
The return of the once-dormant economies of China and India to dynamism and growth is one of the most remarkable stories in recent history. The two countries are home to nearly 40 percent of the worl …
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Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology: Hidden Costs of Energy
Despite the many benefits of energy, most of which are reflected in energy market prices, the production, distribution, and use of energy causes negative effects. Many of these negative effects are n …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Growing Innovation Clusters for American Prosperity
Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow compan …
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€41.83
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Managing University Intellectual Property in the Public Interest
Thirty years ago federal policy underwent a major change through the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which fostered greater uniformity in the way research agencies treat inventions arising from the work they …
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Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in Genomic and Protein Research and Innovation & National Research Council: Reaping the Benefits of Genomic and Proteomic Research
The patenting and licensing of human genetic material and proteins represents an extension of intellectual property (IP) rights to naturally occurring biological material and scientific information, …
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Charles W. Wessner & Committee on Government-Industry Partnerships for the Development of New Technologies: Partnering Against Terrorism
Terrorism and the measures needed to prevent terrorist attacks pose a central policy challenge for the U.S. To meet this unprecedented challenge, the U.S. has great technological assets. What is need …
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Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy & National Research Council: Productivity and Cyclicality in Semiconductors
Hosted by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, this symposium brought together leading technologists and economists to review technical challenges facing the semiconductor industry, the …
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€64.20
Committee on New Approaches to Early Detection and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer & Institute of Medicine: Saving Women’s Lives
The outlook for women with breast cancer has improved in recent years. Due to the combination of improved treatments and the benefits of mammographyscreening, breast cancer mortality has decreased st …
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Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy & National Research Council: Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy
This volume assembles papers commissioned by the National Research Council’s Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) to inform judgments about the significant institutional and polic …
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€96.11
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Securing the Future
Based on the deliberations of a high-level international conference, this report summarizes the presentations of an exceptional group of experts, convened by Intel’s Chairman Emeritus Gordon Moore an …
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National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Government-Industry Partnerships for the Development of New Technologies
This report reviews a variety of partnership programs in the United States, and finds that partnerships constitute a vital positive element of public policy, helping to address major challenges and o …
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National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Partnership for Solid-State Lighting
As part of its analysis of public-private partnerships, the Academies convened leading academic researchers, government officials and policy makers, and representatives from large and small firms to …
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National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy
Sustaining the New Economy will require public policies that remain relevant to the rapid technological changes that characterize it. While data and its timely analysis are key to effective policy-ma …
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National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Capitalizing on New Needs and New Opportunities
This report addresses a topic of recognized policy concern. To capture the benefits of substantial U.S. investments in biomedical R&D, parallel investments in a wide range of seemingly unrelated disc …
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Committee on the Federal Science and Technology Budget & Institute of Medicine: Observations on the President’s Fiscal Year 2002 Federal Science and Technology Budget
Fourth in a series of annual reports, this study provides observations on the Administration’s FY 2002 budget proposal for federal science and technology (FS&T) programs. The report comments first on …
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Committee on Trends in Federal Spending on Scientific and Engineering Research & National Research Council: Trends in Federal Support of Research and Graduate Education
The Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy updated its 1999 analysis (Appendix A, Securing America’s Industrial Strength, 1999) of changes since 1990 in the distribution of federal research …
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National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Advanced Technology Program
This report examines the operations of the APT, reviews its extensive assessment program, and provides NRC Committee findings concerning the ATP’s operations and recommendations for potential improve …
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National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Review of the New Initiatives at the NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Ames Research Center, in the heart of Silicon Valley, is embarking on a program to develop a science and technology park bringing together leading companies and universities to capitalize on Ame …
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National Research Council & Policy Division: Small Business Innovation Research Program
In 1992, Congress for the first time explicitly directed the federal agencies making SBIR grants to use commercial potential as a criterion for granting SBIR awards. In response, the Department of De …
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Board on Testing and Assessment & Committee on Workforce Needs in Information Technology: Building a Workforce for the Information Economy
A look at any newspaper’s employment section suggests that competition for qualified workers in information technology (IT) is intense. Yet even experts disagree on not only the actual supply versus …
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National Research Council & Technology and Economic Policy: Small Business Innovation Research Program
Small businesses have increasingly been recognized as a source of innovation, and one way in which the Federal government encourages such innovation is through the Small Business Innovation Research …
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National Research Council & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: New Vistas in Transatlantic Science and Technology Cooperation
The successful conclusion of the US-EU Agreement on Science and Technology Cooperation offers the prospect of a new chapter in transatlantic cooperation. As with any international agreement in scienc …
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National Research Council & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: Trends and Challenges in Aerospace Offsets
The granting of offsets to promote exports of major aircraft systems has been a source of significant controversy. Critics believe that offsets undermine the U.S. manufacturing base; lead to the tran …
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National Research Council & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: U.S. Industry in 2000
U.S. industry faced a gloomy outlook in the late 1980s. Then, industrial performance improved dramatically through the 1990s and appears pervasively brighter today. A look at any group of industries, …
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Hamburg Institute for Economic Research & Kiel Institute for World Economics: Conflict and Cooperation in National Competition for High-Technology Industry
This unique volume contains a powerful set of recommendations on issues at the center of international discussions on investment, trade, and technology policy. They take into account the globalizatio …
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National Research Council & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: Standards, Conformity Assessment, and Trade
Mandated standards used for vehicle airbags, International Organization for Standards (ISO) standards adopted for photographic film, de facto standards for computer softwarehowever they arise, standa …
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Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Innovative Flanders
Recognizing that innovation is the key to international competitiveness in the 21st century, policymakers around the world are seeking more effective ways to translate scientific and technological kn …
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€64.32
Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: India’s Changing Innovation System
As part of its review of Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century, the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy convened a major symposium in Washington t …
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Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Innovation Policies for the 21st Century
To mark the opening of a study of Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) convened a symposium providing an over …
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Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy & National Research Council: Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age
This report summarizes a workshop Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making: Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants held June 7-10, 2004, in Beijing, China. The pres …
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Committee on the Design of an NSF Innovation Prize & National Research Council: Innovation Inducement Prizes at the National Science Foundation
Following a congressional directive in its FY 2006 Appropriations Act, the National Science Foundation asked the STEP Board to "propose a plan for administering prizes to individuals or teams th …
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Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy & National Research Council: Software, Growth, and the Future of the U.S Economy
Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management …
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Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy & Committee on The Telecommunications Challenge: Changing Technologies and Evolving Policies: Telecommunications Challenge
Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management …
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Committee on Innovation Models for Aerospace Technologies & National Research Council: Aeronautics Innovation
NASA is a global leader in aeronautics research and development fostering advances in aviation safety and emissions, propulsion technology, and many other areas. And the agency’s Aeronautics Research …
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Committee on Deconstructing the Computer & Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy: Deconstructing the Computer
Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management …
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National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Research and Development Data Needs
This report contains the proceedings of a one-day workshop organized by the National Research Council’s Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), in conjunction with a study by a pane …
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Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy & National Research Council: Patent System for the 21st Century
The U.S. patent system is in an accelerating race with human ingenuity and investments in innovation. In many respects the system has responded with admirable flexibility, but the strain of continual …
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National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Using Human Resource Data to Track Innovation
Despite the fact that technology is embodied in human as well as physical capital and that interactions among technically trained people are critical to innovation and technology diffusion, data on s …
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Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Medical Innovation in the Changing Healthcare Marketplace
A wave of new health care innovation and growing demand for health care, coupled with uncertain productivity improvements, could severely challenge efforts to control future health care costs. A comm …
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National Research Council & Technology and Economic Policy: Advanced Technology Program
The growth in government programs to support high-technology industry within national economies and their impact on international science and technology cooperation and on the multilateral trading sy …
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€48.51
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Industry-Laboratory Partnerships
The Sandia National Laboratories asked the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) to hold a one-day symposium to review Sandia’s proposal to develop a science and technology park. I …
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National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Managing University Intellectual Property in the Public Interest
Thirty years ago federal policy underwent a major change through the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which fostered greater uniformity in the way research agencies treat inventions arising from the work they …
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Committee on Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Building the 21st Century
The global economy is characterized by increasing locational competition to attract the resources necessary to develop leading-edge technologies as drivers of regional and national growth. One means …
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Committee on Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Building the 21st Century
The global economy is characterized by increasing locational competition to attract the resources necessary to develop leading-edge technologies as drivers of regional and national growth. One means …
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Committee on Measuring Economic and Other Returns on Federal Research Investments & Policy and Global Affairs: Measuring the Impacts of Federal Investments in Research
The enactment of the America COMPETES Act in 2006 (and its reauthorization in 2010), the increase in research expenditures under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and President …
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Committee on Measuring Economic and Other Returns on Federal Research Investments & Policy and Global Affairs: Measuring the Impacts of Federal Investments in Research
The enactment of the America COMPETES Act in 2006 (and its reauthorization in 2010), the increase in research expenditures under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and President …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Clustering for 21st Century Prosperity
Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow compan …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Clustering for 21st Century Prosperity
Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow compan …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building Hawaii’s Innovation Economy
Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow compan …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building Hawaii’s Innovation Economy
Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow compan …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Future of Photovoltaics Manufacturing in the United States
Technological innovation and growth are critical to U.S. competitiveness in a global economy. One means of facilitating growth and improving competitiveness is to foster more robust innovation ecosys …
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€62.47
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Growing Innovation Clusters for American Prosperity
Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow compan …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building the U.S. Battery Industry for Electric Drive Vehicles
Since 1991, the National Research Council, under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, has undertaken a program of activities to improve policymakers’ understandings …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building the U.S. Battery Industry for Electric Drive Vehicles
Since 1991, the National Research Council, under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, has undertaken a program of activities to improve policymakers’ understandings …
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Committee on Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Rising to the Challenge
America’s position as the source of much of the world’s global innovation has been the foundation of its economic vitality and military power in the post-war. No longer is U.S. pre-eminence assured a …
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Committee on Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Meeting Global Challenges
While nations have always competed for territory, mineral riches, water, and other physical assets, they compete most vigorously today for technology-based innovations and the value that flows from t …
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Committee on Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Meeting Global Challenges
While nations have always competed for territory, mineral riches, water, and other physical assets, they compete most vigorously today for technology-based innovations and the value that flows from t …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building the Arkansas Innovation Economy
A committee under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), is conducting a study of selected state and regional programs in order to identify best practices with …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building the Arkansas Innovation Economy
A committee under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), is conducting a study of selected state and regional programs in order to identify best practices with …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building the Ohio Innovation Economy
Since 1991, the National Research Council, under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, has undertaken a program of activities to improve policymakers’ understandings …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building the Ohio Innovation Economy
Since 1991, the National Research Council, under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, has undertaken a program of activities to improve policymakers’ understandings …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building the Illinois Innovation Economy
Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow compan …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building the Illinois Innovation Economy
Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow compan …
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Committee on the Impact of Copyright Policy on Innovation in the Digital Era & National Research Council: Copyright in the Digital Era
Over the course of several decades, copyright protection has been expanded and extended through legislative changes occasioned by national and international developments. The content and technology i …
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Committee on the Impact of Copyright Policy on Innovation in the Digital Era & National Research Council: Copyright in the Digital Era
Over the course of several decades, copyright protection has been expanded and extended through legislative changes occasioned by national and international developments. The content and technology i …
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€37.17
Committee on the Effects of Provisions in the Internal Revenue Code on Greenhouse Gas Emissions & National Research Council: Effects of U.S. Tax Policy on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The U.S. Congress charged the National Academies with conducting a review of the Internal Revenue Code to identify the types of and specific tax provisions that have the largest effects on carbon and …
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Committee on the Effects of Provisions in the Internal Revenue Code on Greenhouse Gas Emissions & National Research Council: Effects of U.S. Tax Policy on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The U.S. Congress charged the National Academies with conducting a review of the Internal Revenue Code to identify the types of and specific tax provisions that have the largest effects on carbon and …
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Committee on Best Practice in National Innovation Programs for Flexible Electronics & National Research Council: Flexible Electronics for Security, Manufacturing, and Growth in the United States
Flexible Electronics for Security, Manufacturing, and Growth in the United States is the summary of a workshop convened in September 2010 by Policy and Global Affairs’ Board on Science, Technology, a …
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Committee on Best Practice in National Innovation Programs for Flexible Electronics & National Research Council: Flexible Electronics for Security, Manufacturing, and Growth in the United States
Flexible Electronics for Security, Manufacturing, and Growth in the United States is the summary of a workshop convened in September 2010 by Policy and Global Affairs’ Board on Science, Technology, a …
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Committee on 21st Century Manufacturing: The Role of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology & National Research Council: Strengthening American Manufacturing
The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)has sought for more than two decades to strengthen Ame …
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Committee on 21st Century Manufacturing: The Role of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology & National Research Council: Strengthening American Manufacturing
The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)has sought for more than two decades to strengthen Ame …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Best Practices in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives
Most of the policy discussion about stimulating innovation has focused on the federal level. This study focuses on the significant activity at the state level, with the goal of improving the public’s …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Best Practices in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives
Most of the policy discussion about stimulating innovation has focused on the federal level. This study focuses on the significant activity at the state level, with the goal of improving the public’s …
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€53.59
Committee on 21st Century Manufacturing: The Role of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology & National Research Council: 21st Century Manufacturing
The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) – a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology – has sought for more than two decades to strengthen Amer …
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Committee on 21st Century Manufacturing: The Role of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology & National Research Council: 21st Century Manufacturing
The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) – a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology – has sought for more than two decades to strengthen Amer …
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€77.02
Committee on Intellectual Property Management in Standard-Setting Processes & National Research Council: Patent Challenges for Standard-Setting in the Global Economy
Patent Challenges for Standard-Setting in the Global Economy: Lessons from Information and Communication Technology examines how leading national and multinational standard-setting organizations (SSO …
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Committee on Intellectual Property Management in Standard-Setting Processes & National Research Council: Patent Challenges for Standard-Setting in the Global Economy
Patent Challenges for Standard-Setting in the Global Economy: Lessons from Information and Communication Technology examines how leading national and multinational standard-setting organizations (SSO …
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€46.31
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: New York’s Nanotechnology Model
New York’s Nanotechnology Model: Building the Innovation Economy is the summary of a 2013 symposium convened by the National Research Council Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy and mem …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: New York’s Nanotechnology Model
New York’s Nanotechnology Model: Building the Innovation Economy is the summary of a 2013 symposium convened by the National Research Council Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy and mem …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Capturing Change in Science, Technology, and Innovation
Since the 1950s, under congressional mandate, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) – through its National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) and predecessor agencies – has pr …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Capturing Change in Science, Technology, and Innovation
Since the 1950s, under congressional mandate, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) – through its National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) and predecessor agencies – has pr …
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National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: SBIR at the Department of Defense
Created in 1982 through the Small Business Innovation Development Act, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program remains the nation’s single largest innovation program for small business. …
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€3.84
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: SBIR at the Department of Defense
Created in 1982 through the Small Business Innovation Development Act, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program remains the nation’s single largest innovation program for small business. …
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€64.18
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: SBIR at the National Science Foundation
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 1982 to encourage small businesses to develop new proc …
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€3.84
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: SBIR at the National Science Foundation
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 1982 to encourage small businesses to develop new proc …
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€76.99
Committee on High-Skilled Immigration Policy and the Global Competition for Talent & Policy and Global Affairs: Immigration Policy and the Search for Skilled Workers
The market for high-skilled workers is becoming increasingly global, as are the markets for knowledge and ideas. While high-skilled immigrants in the United States represent a much smaller proportion …
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€3.83
Committee on High-Skilled Immigration Policy and the Global Competition for Talent & Policy and Global Affairs: Immigration Policy and the Search for Skilled Workers
The market for high-skilled workers is becoming increasingly global, as are the markets for knowledge and ideas. While high-skilled immigrants in the United States represent a much smaller proportion …
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€57.74
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Determinants of Market Adoption of Advanced Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Technologies: Power of Change
Electricity, supplied reliably and affordably, is foundational to the U.S. economy and is utterly indispensable to modern society. However, emissions resulting from many forms of electricity generati …
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€3.84
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Determinants of Market Adoption of Advanced Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Technologies: Power of Change
Electricity, supplied reliably and affordably, is foundational to the U.S. economy and is utterly indispensable to modern society. However, emissions resulting from many forms of electricity generati …
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€88.93
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: Innovation, Diversity, and the SBIR/STTR Programs
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs provide federal research and development funding to small businesses. One of the the goals of thes …
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€3.79
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: Innovation, Diversity, and the SBIR/STTR Programs
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs provide federal research and development funding to small businesses. One of the the goals of thes …
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€42.36
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: SBIR at NASA
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 1982 to encourage small businesses to develop new proc …
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€3.84
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: SBIR at NASA
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 1982 to encourage small businesses to develop new proc …
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€76.48
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: SBIR/STTR at the National Institutes of Health
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs provide federal research and development funding to small businesses. In 2008, the National Resear …
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€3.86
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: SBIR/STTR at the National Institutes of Health
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs provide federal research and development funding to small businesses. In 2008, the National Resear …
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€90.08
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: STTR: An Assessment of the Small Business Technology Transfer Program
Today’s knowledge economy is driven in large part by the nation’s capacity to innovate. One of the defining features of the U.S. economy is a high level of entrepreneurial activity. Entrepreneurs in …
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€3.82
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: STTR: An Assessment of the Small Business Technology Transfer Program
Today’s knowledge economy is driven in large part by the nation’s capacity to innovate. One of the defining features of the U.S. economy is a high level of entrepreneurial activity. Entrepreneurs in …
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€70.77
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: SBIR/STTR at the Department of Energy
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 1982 to encourage small businesses to develop new proc …
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€3.84
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: SBIR/STTR at the Department of Energy
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 1982 to encourage small businesses to develop new proc …
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€70.41
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Board on Science Education: Building America’s Skilled Technical Workforce
Skilled technical occupationsdefined as occupations that require a high level of knowledge in a technical domain but do not require a bachelor’s degree for entryare a key component of the U.S. econom …
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€3.84
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Board on Science Education: Building America’s Skilled Technical Workforce
Skilled technical occupationsdefined as occupations that require a high level of knowledge in a technical domain but do not require a bachelor’s degree for entryare a key component of the U.S. econom …
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€70.50
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Evaluation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E): Assessment of ARPA-E
In 2005, the National Research Council report Rising Above the Gathering Storm recommended a new way for the federal government to spur technological breakthroughs in the energy sector. It recommende …
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€3.82
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Evaluation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E): Assessment of ARPA-E
In 2005, the National Research Council report Rising Above the Gathering Storm recommended a new way for the federal government to spur technological breakthroughs in the energy sector. It recommende …
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€64.44
Innovation Policy Forum & Policy and Global Affairs: Securing Advanced Manufacturing in the United States
The Manufacturing USA initiative seeks to reinforce U.S.-based advanced manufacturing through partnerships among industry, academia, and government. Started in 2012 and established with bipartisan su …
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€3.82
Innovation Policy Forum & Policy and Global Affairs: Securing Advanced Manufacturing in the United States
The Manufacturing USA initiative seeks to reinforce U.S.-based advanced manufacturing through partnerships among industry, academia, and government. Started in 2012 and established with bipartisan su …
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€55.79
Innovation Policy Forum & Policy and Global Affairs: Revisiting the Manufacturing USA Institutes
The Manufacturing USA initiative seeks to reinforce U.S.-based advanced manufacturing through partnerships among industry, academia, and government. Started in 2012 and established with bipartisan su …
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€3.83
Committee on Trends in Federal Spending on Scientific and Engineering Research & National Research Council: Trends in Federal Support of Research and Graduate Education
The Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy updated its 1999 analysis (Appendix A, Securing America’s Industrial Strength, 1999) of changes since 1990 in the distribution of federal research …
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€39.17
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Government-Industry Partnerships for the Development of New Technologies
This report reviews a variety of partnership programs in the United States, and finds that partnerships constitute a vital positive element of public policy, helping to address major challenges and o …
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€39.81
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Using Human Resource Data to Track Innovation
Despite the fact that technology is embodied in human as well as physical capital and that interactions among technically trained people are critical to innovation and technology diffusion, data on s …
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€21.19
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Review of the New Initiatives at the NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Ames Research Center, in the heart of Silicon Valley, is embarking on a program to develop a science and technology park bringing together leading companies and universities to capitalize on Ame …
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€37.80
National Research Council & Policy Division: Small Business Innovation Research Program
In 1992, Congress for the first time explicitly directed the federal agencies making SBIR grants to use commercial potential as a criterion for granting SBIR awards. In response, the Department of De …
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€72.02
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Advanced Technology Program
This report examines the operations of the APT, reviews its extensive assessment program, and provides NRC Committee findings concerning the ATP’s operations and recommendations for potential improve …
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€65.02
Board on Testing and Assessment & Committee on Workforce Needs in Information Technology: Building a Workforce for the Information Economy
A look at any newspaper’s employment section suggests that competition for qualified workers in information technology (IT) is intense. Yet even experts disagree on not only the actual supply versus …
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€39.78
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy
Sustaining the New Economy will require public policies that remain relevant to the rapid technological changes that characterize it. While data and its timely analysis are key to effective policy-ma …
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€56.20
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Partnership for Solid-State Lighting
As part of its analysis of public-private partnerships, the Academies convened leading academic researchers, government officials and policy makers, and representatives from large and small firms to …
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€34.83
Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy & National Research Council: Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy
This volume assembles papers commissioned by the National Research Council’s Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) to inform judgments about the significant institutional and polic …
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€69.23
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Capitalizing on New Needs and New Opportunities
This report addresses a topic of recognized policy concern. To capture the benefits of substantial U.S. investments in biomedical R&D, parallel investments in a wide range of seemingly unrelated disc …
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€69.91
Committee on the Federal Science and Technology Budget & Institute of Medicine: Observations on the President’s Fiscal Year 2002 Federal Science and Technology Budget
Fourth in a series of annual reports, this study provides observations on the Administration’s FY 2002 budget proposal for federal science and technology (FS&T) programs. The report comments first on …
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€14.58
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Securing the Future
Based on the deliberations of a high-level international conference, this report summarizes the presentations of an exceptional group of experts, convened by Intel’s Chairman Emeritus Gordon Moore an …
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€68.14
National Research Council & Technology and Economic Policy: Advanced Technology Program
The growth in government programs to support high-technology industry within national economies and their impact on international science and technology cooperation and on the multilateral trading sy …
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€33.93
National Research Council & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: Borderline Case
The growing integration of world markets for capital and goods, coupled with the rise of instantaneous worldwide communication, has made identification of corporations as "American, " " …
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€39.88
National Research Council & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: Securing America’s Industrial Strength
This volume presents the conclusions of the National Research Council’s Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy from industry studies published under the title, "U.S. Industry in 2000: …
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€31.36
National Research Council & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: Improving America’s Schools
Reform of American education is largely motivated by concerns about our economic competitiveness and American’s standard of living. Yet, few if any of the public school reform agendas incorporate eco …
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€57.25
National Research Council & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: U.S. Industry in 2000
U.S. industry faced a gloomy outlook in the late 1980s. Then, industrial performance improved dramatically through the 1990s and appears pervasively brighter today. A look at any group of industries, …
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€68.21
Hamburg Institute for Economic Research & Kiel Institute for World Economics: Conflict and Cooperation in National Competition for High-Technology Industry
This unique volume contains a powerful set of recommendations on issues at the center of international discussions on investment, trade, and technology policy. They take into account the globalizatio …
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€44.31
National Research Council & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: New Vistas in Transatlantic Science and Technology Cooperation
The successful conclusion of the US-EU Agreement on Science and Technology Cooperation offers the prospect of a new chapter in transatlantic cooperation. As with any international agreement in scienc …
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€40.53
National Research Council & Technology and Economic Policy: Small Business Innovation Research Program
Small businesses have increasingly been recognized as a source of innovation, and one way in which the Federal government encourages such innovation is through the Small Business Innovation Research …
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€41.44
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Industry-Laboratory Partnerships
The Sandia National Laboratories asked the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) to hold a one-day symposium to review Sandia’s proposal to develop a science and technology park. I …
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€30.82
National Research Council & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: Trends and Challenges in Aerospace Offsets
The granting of offsets to promote exports of major aircraft systems has been a source of significant controversy. Critics believe that offsets undermine the U.S. manufacturing base; lead to the tran …
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€65.30
Committee on New Approaches to Early Detection and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer & Institute of Medicine: Saving Women’s Lives
The outlook for women with breast cancer has improved in recent years. Due to the combination of improved treatments and the benefits of mammographyscreening, breast cancer mortality has decreased st …
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€47.62
Committee on Deconstructing the Computer & Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy: Deconstructing the Computer
Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management …
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€41.10
Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy & National Research Council: Productivity and Cyclicality in Semiconductors
Hosted by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, this symposium brought together leading technologists and economists to review technical challenges facing the semiconductor industry, the …
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€45.98
Charles W. Wessner & Committee on Government-Industry Partnerships for the Development of New Technologies: Partnering Against Terrorism
Terrorism and the measures needed to prevent terrorist attacks pose a central policy challenge for the U.S. To meet this unprecedented challenge, the U.S. has great technological assets. What is need …
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€35.96
Institute of Medicine & National Cancer Policy Board: Economic Models of Colorectal Cancer Screening in Average-Risk Adults
The National Cancer Policy Board and the Board on Science, Engineering, and Economic Policy convened a workshop in January 2004 on "Economic Models of Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Screening in Averag …
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€62.27
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Research and Development Data Needs
This report contains the proceedings of a one-day workshop organized by the National Research Council’s Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), in conjunction with a study by a pane …
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€21.06
Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy & National Research Council: Patent System for the 21st Century
The U.S. patent system is in an accelerating race with human ingenuity and investments in innovation. In many respects the system has responded with admirable flexibility, but the strain of continual …
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€34.42
National Research Council & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: Standards, Conformity Assessment, and Trade
Mandated standards used for vehicle airbags, International Organization for Standards (ISO) standards adopted for photographic film, de facto standards for computer softwarehowever they arise, standa …
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€67.17
Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy & National Research Council: Software, Growth, and the Future of the U.S Economy
Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management …
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€48.14
Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in Genomic and Protein Research and Innovation & National Research Council: Reaping the Benefits of Genomic and Proteomic Research
The patenting and licensing of human genetic material and proteins represents an extension of intellectual property (IP) rights to naturally occurring biological material and scientific information, …
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€42.45
Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy & Committee on The Telecommunications Challenge: Changing Technologies and Evolving Policies: Telecommunications Challenge
Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management …
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€47.05
Committee on Innovation Models for Aerospace Technologies & National Research Council: Aeronautics Innovation
NASA is a global leader in aeronautics research and development fostering advances in aviation safety and emissions, propulsion technology, and many other areas. And the agency’s Aeronautics Research …
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€29.53
Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy & National Research Council: Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age
This report summarizes a workshop Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making: Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants held June 7-10, 2004, in Beijing, China. The pres …
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€37.77
Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Innovation Policies for the 21st Century
To mark the opening of a study of Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) convened a symposium providing an over …
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€47.52
Committee on the Design of an NSF Innovation Prize & National Research Council: Innovation Inducement Prizes at the National Science Foundation
Following a congressional directive in its FY 2006 Appropriations Act, the National Science Foundation asked the STEP Board to "propose a plan for administering prizes to individuals or teams th …
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€21.07
Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: India’s Changing Innovation System
As part of its review of Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century, the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy convened a major symposium in Washington t …
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€48.01
