state tbed
Science and Technology Action Plan for Maine 2005
The ultimate goal of the plan is to increase Maines R&D activity to $1 billion by 2010. The plan creates a road map toward achieving the objective of higher per capita income, set forth in the State Planning Offices 30 and 1000 Plan, created in 1998.
New OECD International Trade Model
This paper provides a detailed description of recent research to re-estimate and re-specify the international trade volume and price equations that are used in the OECD Economics Department to analyse international trade developments. New panel data estimates of the factors affecting export performance, import penetration and exchange rate pass-through into trade prices are reported for both OECD and non-OECD economies.
Technology Diffusion, Services, and Endogenous Growth in Europe: Is the Lisbon Strategy Useful?
The authors explore the role of business services in knowledge accumulation and growth and the determinants of knowledge diffusion including the role of distance. A continuous-time model is estimated on several European countries, Japan, and the United States.
Nanotechnology and the States: Public Policy, University Research, and Economic Development in Pennsylvania
In recent years, most states have undertaken initiatives to spur economic development through investments in university research. This study seeks to probe the connections between these three activities—state policies, university research, and the commercialization of academic research findings.
Theory of the Knowledge-creating Firm: Subjectivity, Objectivity and Synthesis
This paper proposes a framework to capture the dynamic process of knowledge creation in which knowledge is created through the dynamic interaction between subjectivity and objectivity. Knowledge is created through the synthesis of thinking and actions of individuals, who interact with each other within and beyond the organizational boundaries.
Economy at Risk: The Imperatives for a Science and Technology Policy for New Jersey
With New Jersey facing a 14 percent loss of high-tech jobs since 2000, the Commission on Science and Technology commissioned a study for developing a High Tech Recovery Plan for New Jersey.
New Economic Geography, Empirics, and Regional Policy
There are doubts about the effectiveness of regional policy, according to the authors. They validate one explanation: agglomeration advantages lock business activity in relatively prosperous core regions, even though wages – and thus production costs – tend to be higher there.
Accommodating Differences
This paper concentrates on the creation of physical conditions, with particular emphasis on the accommodation of social differences in our built environment, the processes that lead to segregation, and how planning methods could provide a counterweight.
Analysis of Regional Economic Growth in the U.S. Midwest
The authors examine some of the economic forces that underlie economic growth at the county level. In an effort to describe a much more comprehensive regional economic growth model, they address a variety of different growth hypotheses by introducing a large number of growth related variables.
Economic Impact Study: A Study of the Economic Impact of the University of Texas System
The study analyzed the short-term economic impacts of UT System institutions on their host region by assessing FY 2004 operational expenditures, capital purchases and construction, faculty and staff expenditures and student expenditures. Findings included a total economic impact on the Texas economy of $12.8 billion and 215,700 jobs in FY 2004.