My doctoral dissertation looks at innovation inducement prizes and their potential as innovation policy tools. My project looks at how prize participants respond to prize incentives, perform R&D activities, and come up with innovations in three cases of aerospace prize competitions (see here for a complete description of the project). My work on prizes is funded in part by grants of the U.S. National Science Foundation and the IBM Center for The Business of Government.

I also investigate nanotechnology R&D activities in the US, Latin America, and globally at the Georgia Tech Program in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, with emphasis on corporate activities. For example, in recent works we analyzed how nanotechnology corporate activities relate to national innovation systems characteristics in multiple countries. All that nanotechnology research is part of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS-ASU). This is 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 US universities, including Georgia Tech.

In the past I was involved in 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. Other 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. I provided assistance in profiling different national technology extension systems for that project.

You can read more about these projects at STIP's website http://www.cherry.gatech.edu/stip/xprojects.htm.

 

 

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