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HTI(S)-2007 Report

Since the late 1980's, TPAC has produced national high tech competiveness indicators based on surveys of individuals knowledgeable about the state of technology in 33 countries. The recent HTI 2007 report continued the traditional HTI series and also included a new formulation of the high tech indicators, HTI(S), which blends the statistical components of the traditional high tech indicator HTI(T) with data from the Global Competitiveness Report, the World Bank's World Development Indicators along with other international statistics. This new formulation enhances the statistical components to provide a new perspective on international knowledge economy products and expanded coverage of the service sectors.

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TPAC Authors Publish on National Technological Competitiveness
TPAC researchers examine the rising technological competitiveness of Chinese industries through a series of three high technology indicators. The indicators include a traditional high technology indicator HTI(T), which has been produced on 33 countries since the 1980s and which shows that China has surpassed the US as the top-ranking economy in 2007. The second is a statistics only, high technology indicator HTI(S), which is a modification of the first indicator; and the third indicator is the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) of the World Economic Forum. All three indicators point to the dramatic increase in the technology based economic competiveness of China . However the GCI presents a much more conservative view of the increase in technological competiveness when compared to the HTI(T).

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Carbon Footprint

TPAC Associate Marilyn Brown, with two other colleagues has surprised the environmental policy community with her findings on carbon emissions from U.S. metropolitan areas. The older cities of the East Coast, despite high densities and public transportation systems, have a worse record than newer cities on the West Coast, which benefit from more favorable weather conditions. The report quantifies transportation and residential carbon emissions from 100 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. In addition to residential density, access to public transit and weather, the carbon intensity of electricity generation and the price of electricity were important factors influencing the expanding carbon footprint of the nation.

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