Juan Rogers
Professor and Associate Chair
Member Of:
- School of Public Policy
Fax Number:404-385-0504
Office Location: DM Smith 311
Email Address: jdrogers@gatech.edu
Overview
Juan D. Rogers is a Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Current research focuses on innovation policy, modeling and evaluation of R&D process, impact evaluation of R&D, knowledge management and organizational change in the private and public sectors, technology transfer and diffusion policies and creativity in science and engineering. He publishes regularly on these topics in academic journals such as Research Policy and Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
Dr. Rogers teaches graduate courses on quantitative and qualitative research methods, multivariate statistics, science and technology policy, information policy and management, knowledge management, logic of policy inquiry and bureaucracy and policy implementation.
Dr. Rogers has served as consultant both in the private and public sectors on science, technology and innovation policy in several countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, China, South Korea and United States). He has written reports and policy briefs on technology extension, R&D and Innovation, and management of research for national and regional governments in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina and Uruguay. He has authored case studies and policy articles for the World Bank – OECD Innovation Policy Platform and for the Inter-American Development Bank. He is a member of the Committee on Opportunities in Science (COOS) for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a member of the Fulbright specialist roster on public policy and public administration and also an evaluator of candidates to the roster.
Professor Rogers received his PhD in Science and Technology Studies from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) and is an electrical engineer from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Education:
- Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Science and Technology Studies
- B.S., University of Buenos Aires, Electrical Engineering
Interests
Research Fields:
- Ethics and Philosophy of Science and Technology
- Information and Communications Technology Policy
- Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
Geographic
Focuses:
Focuses:
- Asia (East)
- Latin America and Caribbean
- United States
- United States - Georgia
Issues:
- Health
- Regional Development
- Creativity in Context
- Science and Engineering Workforces
- Science and Technology
Courses
- PHIL-3109: Engineering Ethics
- PHIL-3127: Sci, Tech & Human Values
- PUBP-3120: Stat Analysis-Pub Policy
- PUBP-4501: Info Policy & Management
- PUBP-6114: Applied Policy Methods
- PUBP-6501: Information Policy & Mgt
- PUBP-8200: Adv Research Methods I
- PUBP-8205: Adv Research Methods II
- PUBP-8510: Logic of Policy Inquiry
- PUBP-8813: Special Topics
Publications
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
- The influence of task complexity in shaping environmental review and engineering design durations
In: ASCE: Journal of Management in Engineering [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2018
- Institutionalization of international university research ventures
In: Research Policy [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2017
- An Empirical Examination of Public Involvement in Public-Private Partnerships: Qualifying the Benefits of Public Involvement in PPPs
In: Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2016
© 2015 The Author.This article investigates the roles and impacts of public involvement in public-private partnerships (PPPs). Our findings contribute to the literature on public-private collaborations by demonstrating the ways that the facilitation of deliberative activities can provide administrative benefits to PPPs. The results suggest that although public involvement can improve support from citizens and political leaders for PPPs and improve the tailoring of project designs to local conditions, the processes have little effect on expediting project delivery or in addressing power imbalances between public and private sectors. We also find that a combination of in-person approaches and virtual approaches to public involvement can improve the achievement of performance standards in PPPs.
Working Papers
- Retention of Engineering Professionals in the Georgia Department of Transportation
Date: December 2015
- Public Expenditure Review of the Science and Technology National Budget of the Government of Colombia: Functional Analysis
Date: December 2015
All Publications
Journal Articles
- The influence of task complexity in shaping environmental review and engineering design durations
In: ASCE: Journal of Management in Engineering [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2018
- Institutionalization of international university research ventures
In: Research Policy [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2017
- An Empirical Examination of Public Involvement in Public-Private Partnerships: Qualifying the Benefits of Public Involvement in PPPs
In: Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2016
© 2015 The Author.This article investigates the roles and impacts of public involvement in public-private partnerships (PPPs). Our findings contribute to the literature on public-private collaborations by demonstrating the ways that the facilitation of deliberative activities can provide administrative benefits to PPPs. The results suggest that although public involvement can improve support from citizens and political leaders for PPPs and improve the tailoring of project designs to local conditions, the processes have little effect on expediting project delivery or in addressing power imbalances between public and private sectors. We also find that a combination of in-person approaches and virtual approaches to public involvement can improve the achievement of performance standards in PPPs. - Computer networks as the embodiment of social networks: The role of national scientific communities in the development of internet in the US and Bulgaria
In: International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation (IJANTTI) [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2014
- Introducing the special section theme: Recent developments in data sources and analysis for R&D evaluation
In: Research Evaluation [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2013
The papers in this special issue are very good representatives of recent efforts to overcome the serious limitations for R&D evaluation stemming from inadequate data resources. They address the data needs for several evaluation questions in different countries and include drawing on new sources of data and sophisticated uses of computer technology for real time tracking. Taken together they provide a good sense of the state of the art on data development for R&D evaluation. © 2013. Published by Oxford University Press. - Career-based influences on scientific recognition in the United States and Europe: Longitudinal evidence from curriculum vitae data
In: Research Policy [Peer Reviewed]
Date: September 2013
This paper examines how funding patterns, career pathways and collaboration networks influence scientific recognition. We analyze these institutional factors in the early and middle phases of academic careers through comparison of a group of researchers recognized as creative by their peers with a matched group of researchers. Measurement of scientific recognition is based on survey nominations and research prizes in two growing, laboratory-intensive research domains: nanotechnology and human genetics. Curriculum vitae data is used to compare researchers based in the United States and Europe. In the early career model for the United States, we find that scientific recognition is associated with broad academic education, fast completion of PhD, and a record of independent postdoctoral research, while in Europe these factors are much less prominent. The mid-career model suggests that both in the United States and Europe fast job promotion within academia is a strong predictor of future recognition. However, there is a clear divide across the Atlantic regarding other mid-career factors: work experience inside and outside academia, research leadership, external grant income, and prizes from professional associations are connected to scientific recognition in the United States, but are less influential in Europe. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. - Review of: Richard Whitley, Jochen Gläser and Lars Engwall (eds.), "Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and Their Consequences for Intellectual Innovation"
In: Minerva
Date: March 2013
- Career-based influences on scientific recognition in the United States and Europe: Longitudinal evidence from curriculum vitae data
In: Research Policy [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2013
- Considering patterns of creative work process in creativity support
In: Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’13)
Date: 2013
- Introducing the issue theme: Rising to the challenges of R&D impact assessment
In: Research Evaluation [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2012
The articles in this special issue address one of the most significant challenges in R&D evaluation today, namely, the assessment of long-term impacts of publicly R&D funding programmes. The set of papers provides both a complete diagnosis of the problem of a lack of long-term impact assessment and a variety of approaches to address them. There is a combination of full programme assessment approaches and techniques to elucidate specific long-term impact mechanisms. © 2012 The Author. - Program-level assessment of research centers: Contribution of nanoscale science and engineering centers to US nanotechnology national initiative goals
In: Research Evaluation [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2012
The Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers (NSECs) operate in the context of a National Science Foundation (NSF) program that represents one of the key instruments of nanotechnology policy in the USA. In this article, we report on a study aimed at understanding the mechanisms by which this collection of centers contributes to the realization of the goals of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI). The study is focused on the program level so we are not considering the detailed contributions or performance assessment of all the activities of individual centers. Rather, the study is organized around the main areas in which collective patterns of impact related to the stated goals of the NNI policy have been detected. The centers are found to perform in the higher end of the distribution for the field, when measured by citations, journal impact factor, leveraging of support, interdisciplinarity, and collaboration with industry. Creative contributions to education and public diffusion of nanotechnology are also detected. Efforts at developing a framework for responsible development of nanotechnology are also observed but challenges remain since the integration of these into the core mission of the program is much more difficult. © 2012 The Author. - Meanings and Policy Implications of "Transformative Research": Frontiers, Hot Science, Evolution, and Investment Risk
In: Minerva [Peer Reviewed]
Date: March 2012
In recent times there has been a surge in interest on policy instruments to stimulate scientific and engineering research that is of greater consequence, advancing our knowledge in leaps rather than steps and is therefore more "creative" or, in the language of recent reports, "transformative." Associated with the language of "transformative research" there appears to be much enthusiasm and conviction that the future of research is tied to it. However, there is very little clarity as to what exactly it is and what criteria might be used to design policy instruments to make more of it happen. In this paper, we contribute to the construction of a framework within which some conceptual clarity might be gained. We develop four analogies, or metaphors, that are found in the discourse about "transformative research" and show what they imply for the meaning of the notion and, as a result, both the phenomena that might be associated with it and the levers that would be available to design policy instruments. The analogies serving as theoretical metaphors that we propose, and also document to be present either explicitly or implicitly in the discourse about "transformative research," are the stock market highlighting risk; the process of evolution and its selection mechanisms; the process of popular culture and the power of "hot" events; and exploration of the frontier of the unknown. No single analogy covers all the relevant issues. Together they help identify a field of phenomena and the potential and challenges "transformative research" presents to policy. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. - Research centers as agents of change in the contemporary academic landscape: Their role and impact in HBCU, EPSCoR, and Majority universities
In: Research Evaluation [Peer Reviewed]
Date: March 2012
The presence of research centers on university campuses has expanded dramatically over the past two decades. The research center is a prominent feature of the contemporary academic landscape with some institutions hosting dozens or even more than one hundred. They are important not only due to their sheer number but also because they reflect deeper undercurrents on what is happening in universities. Research centers are entities that arrange human and material resources for research in specific ways that contrast with the rest of their academic environment. At the same time, there is diversity among centers depending on the rationale for their existence, the circumstances and profiles of their members, and the specific academic contexts of HBCUs, EPSCoR, and Majority universities. In this article, we explore the correspondence between the role of centers and their function in context, on the one hand, and the patterns of human, social and material resources that emerge on the other. It highlights dimensions of value and impact of a research policy instrument, namely, the research center, when a broader framework of assessment that considers its effect on the overall academic system is used. We do so with a mixed methods approach that combines a set of qualitative case studies of centers and the results of a survey of academic researchers both affiliated and not affiliated with research centers in each academic context. With a triangulation design, the results of the two methods are analyzed with a convergent approach. We find that research centers are transitional entities with different local impacts and that some differences in the profiles of participating and non-participating researchers seems to be emerging. © The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. - Program-level assessment of research centers: Contribution of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers to US Nanotechnology National Initiative goals
In: Research Evaluation [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2012
- Introduction to a special section on approaches to predicting and tracing R&D program effects for policy learning
In: Research Evaluation [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2011
The papers in this special section present approaches to either tracing or improving the prediction of outcomes or effects of R&D activities in programs or organizations. The effects of the creation of knowledge are notoriously difficult to predict and, when effects are observed, very difficult to trace back to specific research activities or R&D investments. Both of these problems, one at the front end of the R&D process and the other at the back end, are crucial concerns in research evaluation. The first is always required of good planning and the justification of new programs and investments. The second is inherent in demonstrating that investments made and past activities have either resulted in the desired outcomes or, if not, what changes would have to be made for future success. In sum, these are problems at the heart of evaluation as the 'nervous system' of policy learning. © Beech Tree Publishing 2011. - Engaging national organizations for knowledge translation: Comparative case studies in knowledge value mapping
In: Implementation Science [Peer Reviewed]
Date: September 2011
Government sponsors of research and development, along with their funded investigators, are increasingly tasked with demonstrating evidence of knowledge use by nontraditional audiences. This requires efforts to translate their findings for effective communication. For technology-related knowledge, these audiences include clinicians, consumers, manufacturers, public policy agencies, and knowledge brokers. One potentially efficient approach is to communicate research findings through relevant national organizations. However, this requires an understanding of how such organizations view and treat research knowledge, which can be determined through knowledge-value mapping. Do knowledge values differ between national organizations representing different audiences? Can a deeper understanding of knowledge values help sponsors, investigators, and organizations better communicate research findings to stakeholders?Methods: A series of comparative case studies on knowledge-value mapping were derived through interviews with spokespersons for six national organizations. The semi-structured interviews followed a 10-item questionnaire to characterize different ways in which each organization engages with research-based knowledge. Each participating organization represents a particular stakeholder group, while all share a common interest in the research subject matter.Results: Each national organization considers the value of the research knowledge in the context of their organization's mission and the interests of their members. All are interested in collaborating with researchers to share relevant findings, while they vary along the following dimensions of knowledge engagement: create, identify, translate, adapt, communicate, use, promote, absorptive capacity, and recommendations for facilitation.Conclusions: The principles of knowledge translation suggest that investigators can increase use by tailoring the format and context of their findings to the absorptive capacity of nonscholars. Greater absorption should result in higher levels of knowledge awareness, interest, and use, which can then be documented. National organizations and their members, in turn, can strive to optimize their absorptive capacities regarding the state of the sciences. This combination will ensure the highest possible return on public investment in research activities. This knowledge-value mapping study concludes that national organizations are appropriate channels for communicating research findings and for meeting statutory requirements and general expectations for generating and documenting knowledge use. © 2011 Lane and Rogers; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. - MOD measurement and analysis of highly creative research in the US and Europe
Date: 2011
- The CREA Project–Measuring and Analyzing Highly Creative Scientific Research
Date: 2011
- Citation analysis of nanotechnology at the field level: Implications of R&D evaluation
In: Research Evaluation [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2010
This article addresses the question of how much time it takes for contributions to the nanotechnology literature to establish themselves in the field by analyzing the dynamics of the citations to several cohorts of its papers and the consequences this has for the use of citations in evaluation of R&D. It focuses on the first ten years of publications (cohorts 1991 to 2000) in the field of nanotechnology and eighteen years (1991-2008) worth of citations in windows of increasing length for each cohort to establish some of the basic features of the dynamics of citations in this emerging field. It offers a characterization of the citation distributions of these cohorts of papers and analyzes the time it takes for information contained in those papers to be absorbed by the field as reflected in citations. With a measure developed for that purpose and graphical representation of several dynamical characteristics it finds that there are significant delays in the absorption of information from papers in each cohort. Many papers have sustained growth of citations for many years, sometimes a decade or more, at all levels of the absolute number of citations, and the rank of papers by number of citations has many changes over long periods of time. This suggests that more refined tools for analysis of field level characteristics of impact should be developed to pick up not only the early signs of a potential opportunity in the short term but also recognize topics with older antecedents on their way to a deep and sustained influence. © Beech Tree Publishing 2010. - New research evaluation frameworks and methods for systems level learning: Introduction to a special section
In: Research Evaluation [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2010
The papers in this special section reflect some of the new approaches proposed to address pressing issues of R&D evaluation. These issues are due mainly to the complexity of the system of science and technology within which policies and programs are charged with reaching their objectives. And R&D organizations need to learn from evaluation results for policy and management improvement. Many levels of collective and individual action interact in the process of R&D which makes tracing their effects very difficult. The five papers in this special section address some aspect of the multilevel interactions of the R&D system and propose a framework or method to capture its effects and importance for learning from evaluation. © Beech Tree Publishing 2010. - Knowledge translation in disability and rehabilitation research: Lessons from the application of knowledge value mapping to the case of accessible currency
In: Journal of Disability Policy Studies [Peer Reviewed]
Date: September 2009
Knowledge translation (KT) has emerged recently in the health science community as a means to address perceived gaps in the application of the best research to treatment of disease. Specifically, in the area of disability and rehabilitation research, the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) has identified KT as one of the three areas for critical outcome achievement. This article analyzes some of the issues raised by the notion of KT. First, the article puts KT in the broader context of the study of knowledge flow problems. Second, it introduces the knowledge value mapping (KVM) framework as an avenue for addressing some of the fundamental issues that KT raises in the context of disability and rehabilitation research. Third, it illustrates the application of the framework with a KVM case study of accessible currency. Finally, it discusses the implications of the case study in the broader context of health research agencies such as NIDRR. © 2009 Hammill Institute on Disabilities. - The technological innovation performance of Chinese firms: The role of industrial and academic R&D, FDI and the markets in firm patenting
In: International Journal of Technology Management [Peer Reviewed]
Date: June 2009
This paper examines the recent development of industrial technology in China using a rich and novel Chinese patent dataset, which allows us to get a comprehensive view of the invention activities in China. Combing patent statistics with R&D and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) indicators, we found that the R&D activities at local universities and research institutes were the most important external factors behind the increase in domestic firms' patenting activities. FDI, on the other hand, appeared to have a negative effect on domestic firm patenting, at least until foreign market demand for domestic production is established.Copyright co;y; 2009 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. - Organizational and institutional influences on creativity in scientific research
In: Research Policy [Peer Reviewed]
Date: May 2009
This paper explores institutional and organizational influences on creativity in scientific research. Using a method for identifying creative scientific research accomplishments in two fields of science (nanotechnology and human genetics) in Europe and the US, the paper summarizes results derived from twenty case studies of highly creative research accomplishments, focusing on contextual patterns at the group, organizational, and institutional levels. We find that creative accomplishments are associated with small group size, organizational contexts with sufficient access to a complementary variety of technical skills, stable research sponsorship, timely access to extramural skills and resources, and facilitating leadership. A potential institutional threat to creative science is the increase in competitive research council funding at the expense of flexible institutional sponsorship. Implications for research management and research policy are considered. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. - Evaluation in R&D management and knowledge use: A knowledge value mapping approach to currency accessible to the visually impaired
In: Research Evaluation [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2008
The dynamics of knowledge flow between R&D activities and a diverse set of actual or potential users is clearly critical to the realization of desired outcomes. However, current R&D evaluation frameworks focus almost exclusively on measurable discrete outputs and outcomes. We show that more general categories of the realization of values from the creation and utilization of knowledge are needed to make R&D evaluation more relevant to R&D program management. We propose a set of procedures that comprise a knowledge value mapping approach to R&D evaluation. This is achieved by considering the explicit and implicit normative dimension of the evaluation situation as an empirical domain that requires its own analytical elucidation to direct and give meaning to other technical aspects of the evaluation agenda. The benefits for research portfolio management are explored based on the experience of deployment of a specific technology in the context of rehabilitation research in the USA, namely, accessible currency. © Beech Tree Publishing 2008. - Research creativity. An exploration of pathbreaking science
In: Res Policy (forthcoming)
Date: 2008
- Assessing the impacts in industry of basic research
Date: 2006
- Community of learning, practice and collaboration
In: Science and Public Policy
Date: 2006
- Community of learning, practice and collaboration,
Review of: Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech by Christopher Lecoyer
In: Science and Public Policy
Date: 2006
- Denying public value: The role of the public sector in accounts of the development of the Internet
In: Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory [Peer Reviewed]
Date: July 2004
The development of the Internet has required the combined efforts of government agencies, universities, and private corporations. The system as we came to know it in the 1990s is to a great extent the result of the interaction of technical considerations and the peculiar interfaces among the public, private, and hybrid sectors. Yet the stories of the creation of the Internet by participants are largely of a system that sprung wholly from the private sector. In this study we explore the distance between creation stories and creation processes in this large-scale technical system. Our goal is twofold: to understand the attribution of public and private values by participants and to understand how public values influenced the design of the Internet. An embedded case study design is used with which we detect four types of stories that function as myths of contemporary culture, which constitute a denial of public value in the creation of the Internet: (a) appeal to the heroic individual, (b) substitution of professional ethics for a public service ethic, (c) use of private sector myths by the public sector, and (d) appeal to entrepreneurs and the primacy of the private sector and civil society. In private, insiders tell stories about successful public managers in the implementation of the Internet. They have not received much diffusion and interpret the result as a realization of democratic values. The intent of the government to create a new marketplace, that is, "Cyberspace," is suggested as the peculiar form of public value created with the Internet. These stories highlight by contrast the difficulty in portraying the value created by public managers when the role of the government is enabling and indirect. - Institutional Failure, Blind Leadership and the Blame-Game National Pastime: A case of Argentina
In: Transformation [Peer Reviewed]
Date: April 2004
- The Integration of Theological Perspectives in Communication Studies
In: Transformation [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2002
- A churn model of scientific knowledge value: Internet researchers as a knowledge value collective
In: Research Policy [Peer Reviewed]
Date: July 2002
Determining the value of scientific and technical knowledge poses a great many problems. One of the most acute and widely recognized is that the value of knowledge shifts dramatically over time as new uses for the knowledge emerge. A related problem is that market-based valuation of knowledge is an inadequate index of certain types of scientific knowledge. We present an alternative framework for the value of scientific and technical knowledge, one based not on market pricing of information, but instead, on the intensity and range of uses of scientific knowledge. Our "churn" model of scientific knowledge value emphasizes the distinctive properties of scientific and technical knowledge and focuses on the social context of its production. In particular, we consider the value of scientific and technical knowledge in enhancing "knowledge value collectives", our term for the set of individuals who interact in the demand, production, technical evaluation, and application of scientific and technical, knowledge. To illustrate the use of the churn model as an interpretive framework, we examine the recent history of the Internet and the churning knowledge use and transformation accompanying its emergence. The development of the knowledge brought together in the Internet shows us how little traditional disciplines and institutions help in explaining today ' s epoch-changing knowledge and technology innovations. We urge a focus on the social configurations producing knowledge value. Rather than counting discrete output, we argue that research evaluation is most helpful when its subject is the capacity of social configurations to produce new scientific and technical knowledge uses. © 2002 Elsevier Science B. V. All rights reserved. - "Knowledge value alliances": An alternative to the R&D project focus in evaluation
In: Science Technology and Human Values [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2001
The question of what the relevant entities or units of analysis for studying the dynamics of R&Dare is central not only for adequate characterizations of the system of scientific and technological knowledge production but also for determining the correct focus for evaluation of R&D activities. Typically, R&D performance evaluations have focused not only on the wrong thing but have looked in the wrong place. Most evaluations have been project or program based. Often this focus is misleading. This article presents a "knowledge value" framework as an alternative focus for understanding and evaluating scientific and technical work. This framework consists of two core concepts: the Knowledge Value Collective (KVC) and the Knowledge Value Alliance (KVA). On the basis of the analysis oftwenty-eight case studies of research activities, the authors present a typology of KVAs and conclude that they area better object of evaluation than discipline-based projects. - Obstacles and opportunities in the application of network analysis to the evaluation of R&D
In: Research Evaluation [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2001
A comprehensive review of studies that apply the network approach to investigating the development of S&T identifies obstacles characterizing current network research and impeding the revelation of its potential fruitfulness in research assessment. It is argued that, in order to fulfill its promise, network analysis needs to: reformulate the 'quintessential bureaucratic evaluation question'; examine more closely untidy networks; focus on the content of network links rather than their formal aspects; and develop a concept of 'network effectiveness' in terms of the network's ability to expand the uses of S&T knowledge. - Software's 'functional coding' and personnel mobility in technology transfer: Linkage fields between industry and publicly funded research
In: International Journal of Technology Management [Peer Reviewed]
Date: November 2001
This paper shows how publicly funded basic research programs develop complex 'linkage fields' over time. The dynamics of these linkage fields generate multiple possibilities of technology transfer that depend on their specific characteristics. On the basis of one of the 30 case studies done in the context of our DOE study, the 'Synthesis and Optimization of Chemical Processes' housed at a US university and funded by BES, this paper shows how the development of a linkage field leads to a specific form of technology transfer via personnel mobility. The production of software creates a special form of 'functional coding' that facilitates the recontextualization of personnel from publicly funded research to industry and vice versa. This case suggests the 'linkage field' as a unit of analysis in the assessment of the impact of publicly funded research. - Guest Editor:-Software’s’ Functional Coding’and personnel mobility in technology transfer: Linkage fields between industry and publicly funded research
In: International Journal of Technology Management
Date: 2001
- Strategic management of government-sponsored R&D portfolios
In: Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2001
- GVU’s 10th WWW user survey
In: Retrieved December
Date: 1999
- Results of GVU’s tenth world wide web user survey
In: Atlanta, GA: Graphics Visualization and Usability Center, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology.(www. gvu. gatec
Date: 1999
- The Research Value Mapping Project: Qualitative–quantitative Case Studies of Research Projects Funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences
In: Atlanta, GA: Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: 1999
- Internetworking and the politics of science: NSFNET in internet history
In: Information Society [Peer Reviewed]
Date: July 1998
This article presents an account of the process of development of the NSFNET and its significance for the emergence of the Internet of the 1990s. The fact that the development of the interconnected system of computer networks occurred within the realm of academic research is not incidental. The dynamics of the world of scientific research were intimately related to the shaping of the network and to the way in which it spread to other sectors of society. The construction of computer networks crossed the boundaries between science and society in order to build the scientific realm by transforming the world in which it is embedded. - GVU tenth WWW user survey
In: The World Wide Web Journal
Date: 1998
- GVU’s 9th WWW User Survey
In: Available in: www. gvu. gatech. edu/user_surveys/survey-1998-04.[21.12. 2005]
Date: 1998
- GVU’s Ninth WWW User Survey Report
In: Atlanta, GA: Office of Technology Licensing, Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Date: 1998
- Basic research and the success of federal lab-industry partnerships
In: Journal of Technology Transfer [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 1997
This paper examines the role that basic research plays in the strategies pursued by industry in their interactions with federal labs. It draws on questionnaire-based data of 229 federal laboratory-industry joint R&D projects with 219 companies and 27 laboratories. The study documents the relative importance of basic research in the success of the interactions by comparing the incidence of basic research on several indicators of success. The study shows that, even though projects involving basic research tend to have higher costs, they also have a high percentage of product outputs in the short term. Typical high payoff strategies for partnership were those in which the company performed several technical roles and the federal laboratory was more narrowly focused. - On the Politics of Theorizing in a Postmodern Academy
In: American Anthropologist [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 1995
The authors outline a politics of academic theorizing that seeks pluralism and egalitarianism without relativism and nihilism. Their goal is to help transform the academy by knocking down the walls around institutionalized technoscience without dissolving the enterprise of academic theorizing. Postmodernist critiques have blurred the cultural boundaries between technoscience and popular science practices, calling into question the absolute legitimacy of the former. Yet the positive proposals of postmodernism have been less valuable than the critiques. The authors hope to recover some of the imaginative power of postmodernist criticism by formulating a different politics of academic theorizing, built around the language and practice of “partnering.” In the process, they hope to build exchange relations between postmodernism and other forms of theorizing, such as feminism. 1995 American Anthropological Association
Chapters
- La Evaluación en el Estudio de las Políticas Públicas
Date: 2015
- Arpanet
Date: 2014
- Knowledge Management through Informal Knowledge Exchanges and Communities of Practice in Public Organizations
In: Public Administration Reformation: Market Demand for Public Organizations [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2014
- Research and Innovation Assessment
Date: 2010
- New Strategies for Knowledge Translation
Date: 2008
- NSFnet
Date: 2001
- NTIA
Date: 2001
- Theoretical Consideration of Collaboration in Scientific Research
Date: 2000
Conferences
- From STEAM research to education: An integrated art and engineering course at Georgia Tech
Date: July 2012
We describe an experimental, project-based, integrated art and engineering course for undergraduate students currently taking place at Georgia Institute of Technology. The course is informed by our research study on the creative work practices of artists and engineers. A summary of this research and a description of the course are presented here. This work can inform K-16 STEM education, particularly with respect to giving students skills to participate in the creative innovation economy. © 2012 IEEE. - Articulating creative practice: Teleological and stochastic strategies in a case study of an artist and an engineering team developing similar technologies
Date: April 2012
We describe teleological and stochastic patterns in creative strategy using a case from our comparative, multiple-case study of the work practices of artists and engineers separately developing similar technologies. © 2012 ACM. - Negotiating uncertainty: Process, artifact, and discourse in a case study of technologies to address SIDS
Date: December 2011
We describe the creative strategies used to develop two technologies that address sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). An engineer and his team developed one of the technologies and an artist developed the other. We discuss the creative strategies and the resulting technologies in terms of their negotiation of uncertainties occurring at many levels: the uncertainty of the creative process, the uncertainty of SIDS, and the uncertainty inherent in technological interventions for SIDS. © 2011 ACM. - Creative strategies in artists’ and engineers’ approaches to technology development: first results of a case study
Date: 2011
- Blind matching versus matchmaking: Comparison group selection for highly creative researchers
Date: December 2009
This research examines approaches for constructing a comparison group relative to highly creative researchers in nanotechnology and human genetics in the US and Europe. Such a comparison group would be useful in identifying factors that contribute to scientific creativity in these emerging fields. Two comparison group development approaches are investigated. The first approach is based on propensity score analysis and the second is based on knowledge from the literature on scientific creativity and early career patterns. In the first approach, the log of citations over the years of activity in the domains under analysis produces a significant result, but the distribution of matches is not adequate at the middle and high ends of the scale. The second approach matches highly creative researchers in nanotechnology and human genetics with a comparison group of researchers that have the same or similar early career characteristics were considered: (1) same first year of publication (2) same subject category of the first publication, (3) similar publication volume for the first six years in the specified emerging domain. High levels of diversity among the highly creative researchers, especially those in human genetics, underscore the difficulties of constructing a comparison group to understand factors that have brought about their level of performance.
Working Papers
- Public Expenditure Review of the Science and Technology National Budget of the Government of Colombia: Functional Analysis
Date: December 2015
- Retention of Engineering Professionals in the Georgia Department of Transportation
Date: December 2015
- Evaluation Framework for the University System of the United Arab Emirates
Date: 2015
- Institutions for Technology Diffusion
Date: 2015
- Streamlining Project Delivery through Risk Analysis
Date: 2015
- Career-based influences on scientific recognition in the United States and Europe: Longitudinal evidence from curriculum vitae data
Date: 2014
- Implementing Communities of Practice in the Georgia Department of Transportation
Date: 2014
- Developing Strategic Systems Supporting Communities of Practice in the Georgia Department of Transportation. Final Report.
Date: December 2011
- Development of evaluation tools for assessing capabilities in health technology
Date: September 2010
- R&D Performance Measurement in the International Context: The Case of the United States Federal Government R&D Agencies
Date: 2007
- Developing Assessment Models for CONACyT: A Review of International Practices in the Measurement of Research.
Date: 2004
- Results of GVU’s Tenth World Wide Web User Survey
Date: May 1999
- The R&D value mapping project: Final Report
Date: 1998
Thesis / Dissertations
- Advancing High End Computing