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Invitation Letter for 2007 HTI Web Survey
Feb 2007
TO: Distinguished Colleagues
FROM: Alan Porter, David Roessner, Nils Newman, and Xiao-Yin Jin
Technology Policy and Assessment Center (TPAC), Georgia Tech, USA
RE: Invitation to serve on the International Technology Indicators Panel
We invite you to serve as a member of the International Technology Indicators Panel for the term 2007-2008. We are asking you and other distinguished experts to provide judgments on a series of issues pertaining to national capabilities. We will combine these expert judgments with various quantitative measures of a country's resources and technology-related activities to generate indicators of national technological competitiveness for 33 countries. These indicators are intended to inform policy-makers and scholars. In particular, we seek to anticipate the extent to which various countries will advance their capabilities to export technology-intensive products and services over the next 15 years.
Over the years, this work has been assisted by support from the U.S. National Science Foundation, which has used results in Science and Engineering Indicators (S&EI). The 2005 project summary with past project information appears on the website (http://tpac.gatech.edu). Also posted there are recent papers concerning national competitiveness and the "High Tech Indicators."
Your service on this Panel will take only a little time. We ask you to provide judgments via the survey for one, or as many as three, countries with which you are most familiar. Please repeat the same procedures to fill out a questionnaire (a set of 16 questions) for each country if you are familiar with 2 or 3 countries.
We wish to acknowledge your participation by citing the Panel's contribution in our reports. We will also provide you with an electronic certificate indicating your service on this Panel, as well as share our findings with you. In return for a bit of your time, service on the panel will provide you with early information on vital indicators and a modicum of professional recognition. In addition, to show our appreciation, we will offer all respondents (unless you decline), a chance to win one of five $50 gift certificates to amazon.com, the Internet Bookstore.
Some experts have participated in our 1987, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002/2003 and/or 2005 surveys. This work builds directly on those efforts, and we plan to repeat this procedure for 2009 (shifting to a 2-year cycle to mesh with the S&EI cycle). For those of you joining us for the first time, note that the focus is on "technology-intensive products and information-intensive services." The products are high value-added primarily oriented toward commercial (rather than defense) sectors. Such products include, but are not limited to, aerospace, chemicals & plastics, computers, software, machines tools & robotics, medicine & biological, microelectronics, scientific/precision equipment, and telecommunications equipment. We also consider knowledge-economy facets.
The survey questions pertain to four underlying factors related to development of a national capacity to generate technology-intensive products:
Please respond now to the questions A-P by clicking the "Questionnaire " button.
If you have any questions, we welcome your inquiries via e-mail to Xiao-Yin Jin (j.xiyiu@isye.gatech.edu) or Alan Porter (alan.porter@isye.gatech.edu) or phone (678-461-0268 for Jin, or 404-384-6295 / 770-992-3113 for Porter).
Thanks very much for your help!