(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)
Melkers, Julia; Pinheiro, Diogo; Youtie, Jan L.
The need to encourage future generations of students in the pursuit of science and technological research has been viewed as a cornerstone of US efforts to maintain leadership in research, development, and innovation. However, few indicators of student intellectual activity at the graduate level are tracked on an ongoing basis. The aim of this paper is to provide evidence about graduate student publishing as an indicator of pre-doctoral research activity and, given the benefits of cumulative advantage to early producers of intellectual output, future scholarly success.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-17)
Kay, Luciano; Rogers, Juan D.; Youtie, Jan L.
US Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers (NSECs) were created to foster world-class science, commercialization, education, and responsible governance. Our evaluation of the NSEC program suggests that the NSECs have demonstrated strategic flexibility in evolving as the field has evolved, addressing multiple goals, influencing their host universities, and reorienting resources around key early career investigators.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)
Arora, Sanjay; Gao, Lidan; Ma, TingTing; Shapira, Philip; Youtie, Jan L.
This research employs a web-scraping methodology to 1) investigate country level differences among twenty graphene SMEs and 2) devise several measures that gauge the extent to which firm specialization in graphene coincides with other market factors. We identify three groups of SMEs to develop some early evidence of graphene commercialization.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-01-24)
Shapira, Philip; Youtie, Jan L.; Rogers, Juan D.; Heinze, Thomas
This project investigates the features of the research environment that enable and foster highly creative research in nanotechnology and human genetics in the US and Europe. It also examines the influence of career patterns. The study contributes to the methodology of science studies by further developing and extending curriculum vita (CV) analysis. The identification of factors in the research environment has broader implications for research and human resource management, and the design and implementation of funding schemes. The use of comparative fields extends the range of impact to two different emerging fields. Public datasets containing variables related to the creative researcher nominees is made available for use by others.