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Projects I have investigated innovation prizes since 2008. My research has focused on cases of recent aerospace and defense technology prize competitions organized by private sponsors and governmental agencies. My work has been funded in part by competitive grants of the U.S. National Science Foundation and The IBM Center for the Business of Government. My doctoral dissertation, "How do prizes induce innovation?", investigated the means by which technology prizes induce innovation. In particular, the project looked at motivations, R&D activities, and technology outputs of prizes and their relation with industry developments. My case studies were the Ansari X Prize, the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, and the Google Lunar X Prize. You may wish to visit the Prize Research website for a complete description and updates on the outputs of my dissertation project. My research work at The Georgia Tech Program in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP) involves the investigation of nanotechnology scientific publication and patenting activities by universities, government laboratories, and companies in the U.S., Latin America, and worldwide. This research on nanotechnology has been part of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS-ASU), a national initiative sponsored by the National Science Foundation to develop a program of real-time technology assessment in nanoscale science and engineering (NSE). CNS-ASU is a multi-organizational network, led by Arizona State University and involving several other U.S. universities, including Georgia Tech. My recent projects at STIP included the analysis of U.S. and global corporate research and commercialization networks and the assessment of the U.S. Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers (NSEC) program. For example, in recent works we analyzed how nanotechnology corporate activities relate to national innovation systems characteristics in multiple countries (see publications in Journal of Technology Transfer). My work at STIP also included other research areas such as university-industry linkages with focus on SMEs, technology extension services to support industry, innovation and competitiveness in small open economies, and innovation in Georgia (USA) manufacturing enterprises. I had worked on other types of projects as well. For example, the Myke-2 - Study of Knowledge Content Building in Leading Sectors of the Malaysian Economy built upon the work and model developed in a prior project, to develop knowledge and innovation indicators for a panel of manufacturing and services companies. My work was mostly related to mapping networks of knowledge flows in different industry sectors in Malaysia. Another example is the study of Technology Extension Systems to inform and assist The Chilean Economic Development Agency (Corporación de Fomento de la Producción, CORFO) in its efforts to develop Chile’s technology extension system. In this case, I provided assistance in profiling different national technology extension systems for that project. You can read more about these and other projects at STIP's website http://stip.gatech.edu/.
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