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Assesses and provides recommendations regarding the need for revised, refocused, and newly developed indicators of STI activities that would enable National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) to respond to changing policy concerns.

Examines how leading national and multinational standard-setting organizations (SSOs) address patent disclosures, licensing terms, transfers of patent ownership, and other issues that arise in connection with developing technical standards for consumer and other microelectronic products, and associated software and components.

Presents the summary of a 2013 symposium convened by the National Research Council Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy and members of the Nano Consortium that drew state officials and staff, business leaders, and leading national figures in early-stage finance, technology, engineering, education, and state and federal policies.

The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) - a program of the US Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology - has sought for more than two decades to strengthen American manufacturing. This title seeks to generate a better understanding of the operation, achievements, and challenges of the MEP program.

Presents the summary of a workshop convened in September 2010 by Policy and Global Affairs' Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy to review challenges, plans, and opportunities for growing a robust flexible electronics industry in the United States.

For scientific background to produce Effects of US Tax Policy on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, the committee relied on the earlier findings and studies by the National Academies, the US government, and other research organizations. This book examines both tax expenditures and excise taxes that could have a significant impact on GHG emissions.

Over the course of several decades, copyright protection has been expanded and extended through legislative changes occasioned by national and international developments. This title examines a range of questions regarding copyright policy by using a variety of methods, such as international and sectoral comparisons, and experiments and surveys.

Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment, many US states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow companies as well as attract the talent and resources necessary to develop innovation clusters. This title offers a study of selected state and regional programs.

Intended to generate a better understanding of the challenges associated with the transition of research into products, this title explains of the study, which is to improve the operation of state and regional programs and, collectively, enhance their impact.

Summary of symposium presentation and an introduction examining the policy issues raised in the conference, held by Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP).

."..the symposium titled E Kamakani Noi'i, the Wind that Seeks Knowledge" -- p. 17.

"Best practice in state and regional innovation"--Cover.

Examines structural changes in the innovation process in 10 service, as well as manufacturing industries: personal computers; semiconductors; flat-panel displays; software; lighting; biotechnology; pharmaceuticals; financial services; logistics; and venture capital.

Recommends 13 actions that policy-makers, courts, universities, and health and patent officials should take to prevent the complex web of IP protections from getting in the way of potential breakthroughs in genomic and proteomic research. This report urges patent holders to allow others to perform the tests for purposes of verifying the results.

Starting in the mid 1990s, the US economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. This workshop convened academic experts and industry representatives from leading companies such as Google and General Motors to participate in a high-level discussion of the role of software and its importance to US productivity growth.

Explores the reasons for differences among leading cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) models of CRC screening, which public health policy makers increasingly rely on to help them sift through the many choices confronting them. This book discusses the results of a collaborative pre-workshop exercise undertaken by five research teams.

Summarizes a conference organized to bring the lessons of the Academy's analysis of Government-Industry Partnerships to bear on the war on terror. This book contributes to an understanding of the potential of partnerships to bring security-enhancing technologies and equipment to the market.

Due to the combination of improved treatments and the benefits of mammography screening, breast cancer mortality has decreased steadily since 1989. Building on the 2001 report "Mammography and Beyond", this book examines ways to improve implementation and use of breast cancer detection technologies.

Based on a series of workshops and conferences that brought together policymakers along with leaders of industry and academia in a select number of states, this study highlights a variety of policy initiatives underway at the state and regional level to foster knowledge based growth and employment.